NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

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Cuba completed this week the agreed-upon release of 553 prisoners. However, it did not report how many were linked to the ...

A month after being hospitalized, Pope Francis is showing significant improvement, moving as he did before his admission.

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

In a long post on X, the Ukrainian leader said that during the conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, “I wished Pope Francis a speedy recovery and thanked him for his prayers and moral support for ...

"The Holy See has received a list of Ukrainians being held in Russian prisons and camps. We are counting on support for their ...

Over 30,000 runners will hold 42 seconds of silence for Pope Francis before the start of the Rome marathon on Sunday morning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday spoke with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin about Pope ...

Pope Francis celebrated 12 years of his pontificate with a cake brought to him by doctors from Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where ...

In recent weeks, worrying health bulletins about the pope may have led to the belief that his death was imminent, sparking ...