And it is the ambassador, Yaron Sideman, who will represent Israel at the funeral of Pope Francis. This is in marked contrast ...

Pope Francis regularly called a church in Gaza to ask how residents there were doing during the Israel-Hamas war. He is ...

Cuba thaw and inked a deal with China on bishop appointments. His calls for peace and to fight climate change were not always ...

For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...

His calls were a source of comfort and protection, according to a small Christian community sheltering around a church in the ...

The parish priest of Gaza's only Catholic church talks about getting daily calls from Pope Francis during the Israel-Hamas ...

Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, after being released from hospital on March 23, following a five-week stay which saw ...

Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year ...

Russia, Israel and China each had unique and often complex relationships with the Vatican and the late Pope Francis. As the ...

In Jerusalem, mourners gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to remember Pope Francis, who championed peace across the ...

GAZA CITY — For most people around the world, Pope Francis was a religious leader seen on video or read about in the news. For the congregation of a tiny Roman Catholic church in Gaza ...

The link between political developments in the Middle East and the theological and cultural exchange between Judaism and ...