Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.

One out of four people living in Lebanon is a refugee, and the majority of children born in refugee camps are unregistered at ...

In Villach, Austria, a 14-year-old Austrian boy was killed Saturday, Feb. 15, by a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker in what ...

U.S. President Donald Trump made an executive order on Inauguration Day imposing a 90-day freeze on expenditures by the U.S.

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

The Church argued that debt is not merely an economic burden but a moral issue that exacerbates poverty, undermines development, and restricts access to essential services.

During the 1960s, Sister Thea Bowman became an integral part in the civil rights movement. It is because of her work in civil rights that the Diocese of Jackson opened a cause for canonization in 2018 ...

The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0) A video has circulated widely on Syrian networks ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Catholic leaders in East Africa launched a campaign on Wednesday (Feb. 12) to advocate for the ...

What is one to make of only the second Catholic vice president in U.S. history lashing out at his own bishops?