Police searched the home of a suspected illegal antiquities dealer and found hundreds of ancient coins, arrowheads, pottery, ...

Allah has permitted women to go everywhere, so why not the mosque,’ said 51-year-old Ameena Bano at the women’s section of ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had become commonplace. During the dozen years that he served as the pontiff, ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Cambridge hairdresser Piero D’Angelico has recalled the moment he met Pope Francis last year, following the Vatican’s ...

Hundreds of archaeological artifacts were seized from a private residence in the Israeli southern town Dimona during a police ...

When Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, he met and prayed with religious leaders of other faiths to spread a message ...

The court heard he had converted to Islam at the age of 15 and regularly ... He said his rosary beads were beside him in the car and a visor clip with his Guardian Angel provided excellent ...

An unlikely choice to be pope championed causes and challenged orthodoxy, keeping allies and critics alike on their toes.