African and European bishops say European leaders are prioritizing their own countries' benefits from African land deals, ...

By some measures, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan ...

Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by ...

Jewish leaders got front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there, and other Jewish representatives ...

Explore the spiritual and cultural sides of Rick Steves' favorite apparition site, a powerful destination for pilgrims and ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

Russia and Turkey’s international religious influence relies on a specific national narrative – one that is challenged by the ...

In the heart of Germany’s capital, a heated political debate has reignited over the boundaries of religious freedom in the public sphere. The Bundestag's Green Party group has submitted a motion ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

The U.S. government recently revised its travel advisories for two major European destinations — Spain and Germany — citing ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...