Pope Francis was praised by several regional leaders and churches, including Lebanon's Maronite Church and Iraqi officials, ...

Brooklyn in Coneuh County, Ala., became a ghost town when transportation advances such as highways and railroads led to a decrease in the reliance on the nearby Sepulga River to transport cotton.

Syria’s president has received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American legislators ...

The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Palestinian Catholics are anxious about who will succeed Pope Francis, who they saw as a true friend amid Israel's war ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died this morning at the age of 88, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

Since the moment of his election in 2013, Pope Francis captivated the world not only with his simple style and familiar ...

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Pope Francis’s death, according to a government official at the Vatican, was due to a “stroke, followed by a coma and ...

African American church leaders are speaking out over budget cuts being proposed by the Trump White House. The Smithsonian ...