UNESCO World Heritage Centre has launched a groundbreaking new report Climate Change in Mediterranean World Heritage Cities ...

Seville, Spain, 30 June 2025 — On the first day of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), Heads of State and Governments and global leaders gathered to launch the ...

The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, speaks at the Conference on Financial ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that artificial intelligence could negatively impact the intellectual, neurological and spiritual development of young people as he pressed one of the priorities ...

The Vatican has beatified a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a part of the world racked by violence a new model of holiness.

The Vatican on Sunday beatified a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: Someone who refused to ...

God may not be a White Sox fan, but Pope Leo XIV is. And the team is hoping it can take advantage of a sudden international opportunity—real or not.

Methodology The IMD Smart City Index 2025 measures how residents perceive the infrastructure and technological services in their cities. This year’s edition ranks 146 cities globally, drawing on the ...

The Vatican kept the basilica open through the night to accommodate them, but it wasn’t enough. When the doors closed to the general public at 7 p.m. Friday, mourners were turned away in droves.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis, known as a pastor dedicated to the poor and the marginalized, will also be remembered as a reformer who overhauled the Vatican’s troubled and scandal-ridden ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the traditional Easter blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s.