Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

Pope Francis, the first Latin-American pontiff, renowned for his outspoken advocacy for the poor and insistence on a more ...

Pope Francis was the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit pontiff and the first to take the name of Francis, after ...

Faithful Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, from Vatican City where Pope ...

Gibson invested tens of millions of his own money into 2004’s ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ and the film was a huge success, ...

Sacred art and icons—often believed to confer divine gifts and powers to the faithful—began to flourish in the Second Century ...

Ederson finished off a wonderful Atalanta team move to give them victory at San Siro, consolidating third place and ...

President Donald Trump 's Easter message, which focused less on the Christian holiday and more on attacking political rivals, including former President Joe Biden and judges, over immigration policy, ...

In January, Trump’s pick for the position of U.S. ambassador to the UN, Elise Stefanik, said in front of a congressional ...

One of the world's largest ecumenical Christian church networks has been posting a climate activism agenda during Holy Week, ...

Iman Hijaze was raised in a culturally Shiite Muslim household and considered herself an atheist until she picked up a rosary ...

This was the first time members had set foot on the church site after the fire in which nearly 80% of the congregation had ...