By Courtney Mares, OSV News For the first time in eight centuries, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are being exposed for an extended period of public veneration, drawing hundreds of ...

Pakistani military action killed 70 Afghan civilians between October and December, according to the UN mission in Afghanistan. Several rounds of negotiations followed an initial ceasefire brokered by ...

After celebrating Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Castro Pretorio neighborhood in Rome, Pope Leo XIV ...

By Deborah Castellano Lubov The Spiritual Exercises for Lent in the Vatican began Sunday, February 22, at 5 p.m. in the ...

Four years into the conflict, around ten million Ukrainians live away from their homes. Among the internally displaced and refugees abroad, the need for humanitarian assistance is growing, while ...

City Parish together with the Penang Diocesan Bahasa Malaysia Apostolate organised a special Mass on September 22 to pray for the Sabah state elections. City Parish together with the Penang Diocesan ...

The Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, is in Tallinn, Estonia, for a conference on Blessed Eduard Profittlich, a martyr of the Soviet regime and an emblem of ...

VATICAN: Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, was received in audience this morning, February 21, by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. After meeting with the Pope, President Sulyok ...

VATICAN: In a telegram released on Saturday, February 21, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “heartfelt condolences” to the clergy, religious and lay faithful of the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, ...

Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, the Archbishop Emeritus of Dar es Salaam and one of Tanzania’s most prominent Catholic leaders, has ...

Pope Leo cautioned project members not to be “enchanted by prophets of doom who see everything negatively,” but neither to be ...

As the Church observes the First Sunday of Lent, Fr Luke Gregory reflects on the theme, "Strength in Temptation: The ...