A man was arrested at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Friday after he climbed onto the main altar and knocked six large candelabra to the ground.

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic ...

Travelers heading to Italy in 2025 should be aware of pickpockets in crowded areas, even in churches or religious sites. They ...

While children are born in almost every country globally, Vatican City stands out as a nation with no births. With a ...

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The once-powerful archbishop of Peruvian capital Lima and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei has acknowledged that the ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in st. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – “The horror of the extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths” before and during World War II “can neither be forgotten nor denied,” Pope Francis said.

On the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Pope Francis urged the world not to forget the horrors of the ...

The Gospel is a word of compassion, mercy, light, freedom and joy, Pope Francis said. The Gospel "calls us to become ...

The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new ...