When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

Pope Francis’ passing marks the end of a historic chapter, one that touched Greece and the Orthodox World profoundly.

The Vatican’s relations with Türkiye during the tenure of the late pontiff Francis are marked by a crisis over the Armenian ...

Pope Francis’ transformative pontificate—from deep Roman Curia reforms and Vatican financial transparency to a global ...

Pope Francis died Monday; here are the front runners for the Vatican leadership, and what they've said about Jews, Israel and ...

Besides, the Pope had been ill since February. He spent five weeks in the hospital – the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome ...

He was the first Pope from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Pope to have been raised outside Europe since Pope Gregory III in the eighth century. It may be said that Pope ...

Throughout his pontificate, Francis spoke out for the rights of refugees and criticised countries that shunned migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos and brought a dozen refugees to Italy on ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of the underdog who forged a more ...

When Pope Francis is laid to rest on Saturday in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major it will be a ceremony and a burial ...

Pope Francis called to check in on a Christian congregation in Gaza sheltering at their church almost every night since the Gaza war began. "Today we feel like we are orphans," a spokesperson says.

Among the ancient Hebrews, men were free to take several wives; married Greek and Roman ... As the Christian church became a powerful institution in Europe, the blessings of a priest became ...