Dressed in a white robe with a rainbow stole, the 68-year-old Frenchwoman acknowledged her ordination was unauthorized by the ...

It is Ilya's first time attending a night prayer meeting in Gorelovka, a tiny village in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia ...

Members of a pacifist Christian sect that emerged in 18th century Russia were exiled to Georgia about 200 years ago for ...

Middle East conflict: Mass funerals held for victims of Israeli strikes in Lebanon Alex Crawford said about 45 people were killed when Israeli bombs hit two residential blocks in the village of ...

The primary goal of the ceremony is to ensure that individuals who pass away without financial means receive dignified funerals, reflecting the community’s commitment to helping others with pure ...

(AP video by Aleks Furtula) Pope Francis is traveling to once-strong bastions of Christianity in the heart of Europe to try to reinvigorate a Catholic flock that is dwindling in the face of secular ...

During a Sept. 27 visit to one of the Catholic Church's most storied universities, Pope Francis heard pleas for the church to reconsider its stance against the ordination of women, become more ...

On August 2, the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) chose the song "Demos el primer paso" as an official hymn for the visit ... by the organization United Catholic Musicians of Colombia ...

The Vatican expelled 10 members from Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a group founded in Peru, after investigators reported cases of physical abuse and cultlike control. By Mitra Taj and Elisabetta ...

Both brief comments represent a shorthand for a developed Catholic moral theology about complex moral decisions, especially when the options are imperfect, as is often the case. In 2006 ...