The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls. Many want to know how Pope Francis ...

Adult Fiction "Death Takes Me" by Cristina Rivera Garza: A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles on the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark ...

Mahmoud Khalil is one such import. A graduate student and green card holder, Khalil was arrested recently on the grounds that he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization” ...

A British man has died in a hit-and-run incident involving the Kenyan president’s motorcade. Edgar Riches, 79, a charity ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

Cuba completed this week the agreed-upon release of 553 prisoners. However, it did not report how many were linked to the ...

A month after being hospitalized, Pope Francis is showing significant improvement, moving as he did before his admission.

Pope Francis’ condition “continues to be stable,” and “the recovery process is slow and requires time for the consolidation ...

Pope Francis marked a month in hospital Friday, with football players sending him messages of support for his recovery from ...

In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley give an update on Pope Francis’ health after doctors lifted their “guarded prognosis,” ...

Normalizing ties with Lebanon has emerged as Israel's new emphasis after it greatly weakened Iran-backed Hezbollah during a ...

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...