VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and the two men discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and to ...

ROMEROME — Pope Francis rallied from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday, making a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a Vatican-Palestinian agreement recognizing the State of Palestine and guaranteeing the ...

VATICAN CITY, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Pope Leo hopes that a plan to end the war in Gaza would soon reach the "desired results", he said on Sunday after acknowledging the significant steps made in ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement that observers hope will finally bring peace to the beleaguered region, the Catholic Church is faced with reestablishing weakened ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day homily on Thursday remembered the people of Gaza “exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold” and said the world’s many conflicts can only ...

Leo cleverly connected the story of Jesus being born in a manger to draw a metaphor that God had "pitched his fragile tent" among the people of the world. Then, speaking of tents, he took his metaphor ...

Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, as in Gaza, those who are in impoverished, as in ...