This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...

After five weeks of hospitalization with pneumonia, including moments where he came close to death, Pope Francis is back at home in the Vatican recovering. Now, the attention in the Vatican is on ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling the Celts. At that time, the Roman Republic was protecting its new ...

There is no current legal instrument in South Africa which can bar Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema from singing the political chant, "Shoot to kill, kill the Boer, kill the farmer".

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

Two RAF engineers who broke a Paddington statue have been told by a judge they are the "antithesis" of everything the bear stands for. Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, both 22 and based at RAF ...

Elon Musk has once again aimed at Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, condemning his performance of the Apartheid-era struggle song Kill the Boer. The billionaire entrepreneur, who ...

The pope has arrived home to the Vatican after spending five weeks in hospital battling a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. It was an extraordinary journey home that saw him take two diversions ...

Vatican Media/AFP via Getty Images Pope Francis gives a thumbs up as he appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he has been treated for ...

Indeed, Wyatt, poet and aspiring lover, adopts and adapts Petrarch’s sonnet CXC to bewail, vis-à-vis his “deer”/dear Anne Boleyn, his own predicament: “There is written her fair neck round about Noli ...

A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.

Pope Francis' condition continued to improve Wednesday and he hasn't needed to use the mechanical ventilation mask to help him breathe, the Vatican said in signalling further progress in his ...