Photos: Christians at church services around the Lehigh Valley, including St. Anne Roman Catholic Church in Bethlehem, marked ...

The annual event is a tradition that has been taking place for more than 30 years at Holy Infancy Roman Catholic Church.

Christians from around the world prayed for Pope Francis at a solemn Mass on Wednesday at Jerusalem's centuries-old Church of ...

Cardinal-electors will cast four votes per day until one candidate secures a two-thirds majority, a result broadcast to the ...

The death of a pope, and the election of a new pontiff, is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony. For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis, and what comes ...

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

Pontiff had complex relationship with Jews and Israel; he denounced antisemitism and met hostages and their families, but ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis frequently called with the only Catholic church in Gaza to see how people ...

Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

FILE - Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity ... in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, May 25, 2014.

Even during his final hospitalization, Pope Francis made time for a daily phone call to Gaza’s only Catholic parish. His ...

Currently, 135 cardinals are aged under 80 and eligible under Church law to enter a conclave to elect a pope after Francis ...