The tiny village where I was born and the town by the sea where I used to live aren’t exceptional in the attention paid to ...

An event on the final day of the week-long commemoration for the 100th anniversary of the Tri-State Tornado will take place ...

Church bells dating back to the 17th century have been carefully restored using modern technology after they became ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into his hospitalization for double pneumonia. The pope spent ...

One of Houston's famously pleasant enclaves has been deemed the wealthiest town in the entire state. While the region ...

Doctors said Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive ...

On a snowy early March day in the old coal camp community of Tams, three friends lifted their voices in song while discussing a historic Black Raleigh County church and community presence. Sherrie ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...

“In some parishes it was the custom for the church bell to ring at noon as the signal for people to begin frying their pancakes,” the authors of the book state. This bell became known as the ...

who quit in 2013. Before his hospitalisation, Francis had repeatedly said it was not yet the time -- and might never be. He maintains a packed schedule, particularly with the Church celebrating a ...

He had spent 10 weeks in the war zone. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI officially stepped down as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body." He was the first ...