Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

The world is mourning Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday aged 88 from a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart failure.

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the ...

Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica. The faithful are ...

Francis, 88, died unexpectedly on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest Cardinals have taken their first ...

Crocodiles dotted the surface as far as the eye could see, and the only way to cross was to hire locals ... What Stanley saw was a pale white man wearing a faded blue cap and patched clothing.

In the upper left corner, the flag features a white cross against a blue background, representing Greek Orthodoxy, the country’s predominant religion. The flag’s nine horizontal stripes, five blue and ...