VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that ...

Hope lives, Francis reminded the faithful on Christmas Eve, as he spoke of the blessed arrival of the Christ Child and the ...

In a sermon focused on the virtue of hope, which is also the theme of the Holy Year, the pontiff said hope "is a summons not ...

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg is abdicating the throne in 2025. The royal announced the news in his 2024 Christmas speech.

At least 15 people, including women and children, were killed in a series of Pakistani airstrikes that hit Afghanistan's ...

Florence Amedo, the Lamwo District Gender Officer, disclosed that 591 GBV cases were documented between June 2023 and October 2024. Among these, physical assault accounted for 218 incidents, making it ...