Digging into the damp, marshy soil of central Belgium, archaeologists went about their typical work. The “routine excavation” ...

The wooden churches of Chiloé stand as a landmark of this archipelago in this southern Latin American nation. Built in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, they survive amid restoration challenges ...

The National Fire Authority has recorded four fire incidents in just the first week of this month. NFA Chief Executive Puamau ...

All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican ...

Romania's "Trump fanboy" presidential candidate crushes his rivals in the first round of elections. That victory comes despite an "anti-Trump bump" in elections in ...

In a picturesque village in central Romania, 83-year-old Zoica Roth bemoans the lack of opportunities for young people and ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a chapel now, with a new stained-glass window.

Santa Maria Maggiore is no mere parish church. It is one of Rome’s four papal basilicas. Other popes have been interred outside the Vatican. But the last was another liberal pontiff, Leo XIII ...

On the other side sat cardinals who will pick Francis' successor at a conclave next month, deciding if the new pope should continue with the late pontiff's push for a more open Church or cede to ...

For a third and final day, queues of faithful wended their way up St. Peter’s Square to bid farewell to Pope Francis, whose body lay in state in a wooden casket in the eponymous basilica ...

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