Beset by overtourism, rising waters and dwindling local residents, Venice is a city in crisis. But photographer Michael Kenna ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

View of St Peter’s Square in Vatican City after Pope Francis hospitalised for bronchitis Watch live the view of St Peter's ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is to be hospitalized for medical examinations and to treat bronchitis, the Vatican says. Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have ...

Large white buses carrying the detainees exited the gates of Israel’s Ofer prison, just outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, as celebratory fireworks erupted overhead. Crowds of Palestinians ...

The building constructed in 1929 always seemed larger than life — especially that November day in 1993 when the city councilman ... As workers were overhead demolishing sections of the interior ...

Emails obtained by The Associated Press revealed exactly how the Saints helped the New Orleans Archdiocese during a sexual ...

Bishops in hardline Sydney and centrist Melbourne want Skrbis gone, and have asked the Vatican to investigate ... from various degrees at the city’s convention centre. On top of their degree ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican decreed that the Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church, commonly known as Majayjay Church, in Majayjay town, Laguna is a minor basilica. This is a first for the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis’ aide leans down to pick up the the handle of the Pope’s walking stick after it snapped as ...

Clustered around the city's port on the banks of the St. Lawrence River are the quaint stone buildings and narrow, winding streets of Old Québec. This historic neighborhood (and UNESCO World ...