VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security fears ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security ...

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ROME BOROUGH — A Rome man is accused of breaking into a local church and stealing multiple items on the morning of Dec. 7.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey leads a morning worship service at the United Methodist Church ...

By Trip Gabriel Richard W. Murphy, a diplomat whose colorful career included serving as ambassador to three Arab countries and as an assistant secretary of state in the 1980s — when he was the ...

Legendary Ghanaian goalkeeper Richard Kingson was in church on Sunday, December 15, and he ensured that his presence was felt in the auditorium. The former goalkeepers’ coach of the Black Stars ...

Over the years, we’ve seen many failures and fallings in the Evangelical church. And it begs the question: What is going on? In my article, Why Do Leaders Fall? I wrote: “They fall for the same reason ...

Last week, the UK chief of defence, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, warned us that we are at the dawn of a third nuclear age. He misses the point. The nuclear threat is deadly, but it is our ...

Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) met with Pope Francis in Rome on Friday, Dec. 13. The OCU Primate thanked the Pope on X “for humanitarian assistance to ...

“He’s our Picasso,” the actor said of Bob Dylan. By Kathryn Shattuck It has been more than four decades since an Armani-clad Richard Gere slunk around Los Angeles in Paul Schrader’s ...