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The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

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Cardinal Pietro Parolin attends the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Catholic missionaries in China from an Italian religious order meeting, in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio ...

In Italy, there were also suggestions that Francis ... As an independent nonprofit, RNS believes everyone should have access to coverage of religion that is fair, thoughtful and inclusive.

The French Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the suspect, born in 2004 and with no previous criminal record, had crossed into Italy before ... and hatred based on religion will never have ...

The Protestants are making headway among Italy’s Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian ...

VITERBO, Italy (AP) — It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church ...

"Attempts to introduce new parameters, such as religion and faith ... Spain, Turkiye and Italy, reiterated its position of increasing the number of Security Council seats exclusively in the ...

The gate's religious symbolism ... These cherubim are common in Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, according to Britannica, especially in scenes depicting the Madonna and Child.