A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in the spring for jubilee pilgrims who wish to escape the crowds in Rome for a day and immerse ...

One of the highlights ... the Jubilee dedicated to adolescents in April. This week, Francis also delivers his annual “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) speech on Christmas Day from ...

Queen Elizabeth II looked radiant as she appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Trooping the Colour parade, which marked the opening of the Monarch's Platinum Jubilee ...

The Jubilee was a year of freedom that was supposed to come in ancient Israel every 50 years, coinciding with the Day of Atonement. All debts were erased, family property that had been lost or ...

Citizens, pilgrims, tourists, and all those passing through experienced the typical phase preceding a Jubilee, with the multiplication of large and small construction sites" and that "all this ...