On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

POPE FRANCIS’S FIRST papal trip was to Lampedusa, the southern Italian island that has been a gateway to Europe for hundreds ...

Europe’s nations have proposed establishing refugee “return hubs” in third-party countries outside their jurisdiction for ...

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis sometimes invoked his own family history when speaking about ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically ...

Pope Francis had died at the age of 88, a senior Vatican official has announced. History's first Latin American pontiff ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88, just a day after making a much-anticipated appearance at Saint Peter's Sq ...

"With immense gratitude for his example as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, we commend the soul of Pope Francis to the ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

C hurch bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from leaders around the world after the Vatican on Monday ...

Chinese companies have been found to be openly selling "inflatable boats for refugees" online and advertising them directly ...