In his address at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo said, “I share your sorrow for the prisoners and victims of this senseless ...

The readout of the pope's call with Vladimir Putin was unusual for the Vatican, which does not always issue statements about papal phone calls.

“We must never get used to war,” Leo said, only a day after Kyiv experienced the deadliest attack by Russia this year, part ...

St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...

"The government continues to favor the Russian Orthodox Church at the expense of other Christian groups," while "Jehovah Witnesses have been banned since 2017," said the report. "After the start of ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian Greek Catholic pilgrims to the Vatican on June 28, saying their country has been "martyred" ...

MOSCOW -Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Pope Leo for offering to help settle the Ukraine conflict and told him Kyiv is intent on "escalating" the war, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

Bruni also said Pope Leo spoke about Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, an ally of Putin. ... NCR first exposed Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal 40 years ago this month #3 .

The Orthodox Church in the Baltic countries ... Shortly after the start of the Russian invasion, Cyril I and Pope Francis met ...

At St. Peter's, the Our Father was sung in Ukrainian, chanted among the faithful who had arrived from Kyiv. Some held small yellow and blue flags in their clasped hands. Under the altar on the ...

Russia wants the Vatican to "take a more active role" in advocating for what it described as freedom of religion in Ukraine, specifically for members of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...