Gang violence in Haiti has continued to further deteriorate the country's security and the crisis is reaching "a point of no ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the ...

Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed ...

Ukraine and Russia yesterday accused each other of violating an Easter truce declared by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ...

The boy who would become Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936. Bookish, ...

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuela involving 250 Venezuelan deportees from the ...

The Catholic Church will embark on the lengthy process of selecting its new head, in the wake of Pope Francis’ death ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is in Rome for meetings with the Vatican No. 2 and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. His visit comes just a day after the Italian ...

As of April 2025, 137 countries had signed the Rome Statute – indicating their intention to join – while 125 of them had formally ratified it, becoming full member states of the ICC.

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later. Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan ...