Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965.

Deputies in Escambia County, Florida are looking for a woman who’s been missing since Ash Wednesday. According to a Facebook ...

A Catholic priest was kidnapped on Tuesday night in Kaduna state, Nigeria, where Fulani herdsmen and other Islamic extremist ...

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has apologised for a social media post that joked the hospitalised Pope Francis "loves the Ashes", reports said. "This was an ill-judged post and was swiftly ...

Francis missed the formal Ash Wednesday celebrations in Rome marking the start of Lent, but took part in a blessing in the private suite reserved for popes on the 10th floor of the Gemelli.

Pope Francis, who is in hospital with pneumonia, “rested well” overnight while wearing an oxygen mask, the Vatican said ...

Mayors from four major cities are testifying in Congress as Republicans take aim at “sanctuary cities,” arguing that they ...

Lent seems the perfect antidote to the frightening political theater we witnessed Tuesday night in Washington, when a ...

The U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday sanctioned Houthi leaders and one company for alleged weapons smuggling and ...

Francis, who is not physically active, uses a wheelchair and is overweight, had been undergoing respiratory physiotherapy to try to improve his lung function. The accumulation of secretions in his ...

Roman Catholic, Episcopal and many other liturgical churches hold services today that include the rubbing of ashes on the forehead, a sign of repentance for sins. Lent is a season of 40 days, not ...