Thousands of Syrian and Iraqi Christians who have fled the atrocities of Islamic State are expected to attend the beatification of a Syriac Catholic bishop later this month.
The nephew of Pope Francis has revealed how the future pontiff he broke the news to his mother that he was not after all going to be a doctor, but wished instead to be a priest.
Pope Francis criticized the destruction of forests in order to plant soy in an interview with an Argentine radio station on Saturday, reinforcing his message that the environment should take precedence over financial gain.
Catholic Pope Francis used the first anniversary of the arrival of Iraqi refugees in Jordan to thank the country for opening their arms to displaced people who suffered from death, poverty, and violence and urged the international community not to remain indifferent to their plight.
The Catholic Pope Francis is urging the Church and Christians to exhibit more understanding and leniency towards divorced couples as well as those who decide to remarry, since it is not right to excommunicate them.
While everyone feels shame before going to Confession, it is through the sacrament that we experience God's mercy, Pope Francis said in his weekly Angelus address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday.
Teary-eyed and angry Catholic parishioners across New York attended final mass services on Friday in some of dozens of churches closing or stopping regular worship services.
A 71-year-old Australian preacher named Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall, who lives on Toogoom, Queensland is raising quite a few eyebrows for claiming to be Jesus Christ and pinpointing the Catholic Pope Francis as the anti-Christ.
The increasing persecution against Christians around the world has reached a point leading Pope Francis and other groups to start calling the problem a "genocide."