Explore the legacy of the Medici family through its most influential figures, from Cosimo the Elder to Catherine de' Medici.

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...

Pope Francis will be hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic at the end of Friday’s daily audiences to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment ...

DNA Web Team Updated : Sep 25, 2015, 01:10 PM IST LISBON: Pope John Paul I, who died from an apparent heart attack just 33 days after becoming pontiff in 1978, was in fact assassinated over his plans ...

As a result, he was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980. Romero was canonized a saint by Pope Francis in 2018. In South Africa, the Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu, archbishop of Cape Town, spent ...

Pope Francis said the assassination of "my confrere," a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit in Syria, "filled me with deep sadness and made me think again of all the people who suffer and are dying in that ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have a common date to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. The proposal, made public ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death.

The grandson of former US president John F Kennedy has criticised Donald Trump for ordering the release of thousands of classified files on his grandfather's assassination. The 1963 killing in ...

The Pope went on to add, "Today in the church there are more Christian martyrs than in the first times. Today there are Christians who are assassinated, tortured, jailed, their throats are cut because ...

Thursday’s order directed the national intelligence director and attorney general to develop a plan within 15 days to release the records related to Kennedy’s assassination. It’s not clear ...

A composite image of Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, left, in New York City, New York, December 12, 2024, and Pope Francis, right, in the Vatican City, January 26, 2025. A composite image of ...