Category: 4. World

The Vatican
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Pope Francis gave the traditional Easter blessing on Sunday, appearing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in front of delighted crowds after a…

Pope Francismade a brief appearance at St. Peter’s Square to mark Easter Sunday, although the Easter Mass was delivered by a high-ranking cardinal as the pontiff recovers from double pneumonia.

Minutes after Cardinal Angelo Comastri…

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Saturday said new investments and tax cuts under his incoming coalition government would make the country “economically stronger.”

The new conservative leader is set to take office around May…

In a recording studio in downtown Santiago, where the dad she has never met once sung, a four-month-old baby girl snuggles in her mother’s arms, noise-cancelling earmuffs shielding her tiny ears from the sound.

Nahiara Rubí Suárez Sánchez is…

Thousands of Christians gathered in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony.

Holding unlit candles, they packed into the sprawling 12th-century basilica built on the site where, according to tradition,…

Pope Francis is expected to attend the Easter Mass at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Sunday, but it is likely to be delivered by a high-ranking cardinal as the pontiff recovers from double pneumonia.

Tens of thousands of Catholic…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has lauded Ukraine’s “resilience, compassion, and humanity” in his Easter address on April 20, adding the country’s faith has “not faded over 1,152 days of full-scale war.”

This year, Easter falls on…

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet earlier this year, scientists onboard the Falkor (too) research vessel felt compelled to see what had been living beneath it.

The Schmidt Ocean Institute researchers…