Christian communities in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem say the situation for them has worsened under the current ...

The Vatican says that Pope Francis has increased his physical activity, called the Catholic parish priest in Gaza and ...

Pope Francis sent a message from the hospital after Vatican officials encouraged him to make his voice heard despite his ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores ...

Father Louis Salman, Catholic chaplain for youth in West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN ... around 16,000 people from refugee camps in Jenin (the capital city of the ...

People gathered for communal prayers in the shattered concrete husk of Gaza City's Imam Shafi’i Mosque during the first ...

The pope spent Wednesday sitting in a chair and participated in the Ash Wednesday blessing ritual from his private apartment on the 10th floor of Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican reported. According to ...

As he approaches three weeks in the hospital, Pope Francis Wednesday had a good day, calling the Catholic parish in Gaza and ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, who is in the third ...