In this combination photo, judge Patrick Dugan speaks, March 31, 2025, in Philadelphia, left, and Philadelphia District ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

And then Francis, the crowd-loving, globe-trotting pope of the peripheries, navigated the unprecedented reality of leading a universal religion through the coronavirus pandemic from a locked-down ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography. The pope wrote that he ...

The area had escaped the full impact of the first wave of the pandemic in the spring ... Both Syria and Iraq are increasingly unstable and impoverished. Both have been badly hit by the coronavirus ...

BAGHDAD: The COVID-19 pandemic has not just affected people, but also the treasures of history and archeology of Iraq, home to the world-famous sites of ancient Mesopotamia. Already a privileged ...

The White House revamped its COVID-19 information website on Friday, unveiling a sleek new landing page dedicated to the “true origins” of the pandemic. COVID.gov, which previously contained ...