Members of Italy’s local and national governments will be the main participants in events for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee ...

Officials organising a Nato summit in The Hague this month are expected to keep it short, restrict discussion of Ukraine, and ...

Saint Peter’s Basilica is getting a makeover as part of the current jubilee, the holy year celebrated by the Catholic church every 25 years. A huge programme of improvements began several months ago, ...

A flower festival in St Petersburg marked Russia's National Day with vibrant displays. Locals and tourists attended the event ...

Pope Leo XIV warned of an "irreparable abyss" as US forces continue to bomb Iran after President Donald Trump made the ...

This is the first shrine dedicated to this cause in Central Asia, in a country marked by a long history of oppression of ...

Nevsky Prospekt finally ends at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, constructed under Peter the Great in 1710 to shelter the relics of the patron saint of ... an issue in Russia, as is discrimination ...