VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

The Vatican's nativity scene reopens to the public, but without the controversial Palestinian symbol.

A stature of the Baby Jesus has returned to the Vatican's 'presepe', or Nativity Scene, in the Saint Paul VI Hall, but not ...

A member of the protest group FEMEN was arrested after she jumped the barricade around the Vatican Nativity scene, took off ...

This is the second year of the presepio at the Church of the Good Shepherd which is a popular nativity display in Rome and ...

A Ukraine-related women's movement accuses the Vatican of inaction on Russia's war crimes against Ukrainian children ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to ...

Pope Francis visited the Nativity scene on display in St Peter's Square on Tuesday as he is about to embark on his Holy Year.

The pontiff's condemnation of atrocities in Gaza reveals an increasing anger over Israel's actions in the holy land ...

Israel summoned the Vatican’s ambassador for talks following Pope Francis’ criticism of Israel's bombing of children as an ...

The Pope had condemned the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, stating "This is cruelty. I want to say this because it touches my ...