When Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border to the eastern Congo city of Goma, he knew the risks ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican ...

Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the "power to ...

Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad ...

He has just emerged from a grueling Christmas period in which he inaugurated the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations. He has sounded congested in recent days but has nevertheless kept up with his ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for ...

This is characteristic of the droll humour that runs through what might otherwise be a dry account of the wriggling and wrangling that goes on behind closed doors to choose the earthly head of the ...

The new Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act will help veterans get the best care they can receive at home rather than have to live out their days in a ...

Cardinal Angelo Amato, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints who oversaw numerous significant canonizations including that of Mother Teresa, died Dec.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Federal agents found one of the largest stockpiles of homemade explosives they have ever seized when they arrested a Virginia man on a firearms charge last month, according ...

SINGAPORE – In a Vatican filled with powerful men in crimson robes, it is a silent woman in a black habit who holds one of the most strategic positions during the selection of a new Pope.