Born in 1991, an Italian boy will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation on April 27.

The Catholic Church will proclaim its first millennial saint on April 27, elevating Carlo Acutis, a teenage web developer who died from leukaemia in 2006, to the same status as Saint Francis and ...

With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to ...

In the early years of the Church, a saint could be declared such ... If a miracle is determined for those who were not martyrs, the person can be "beatified" and is given the title "Blessed".

Since the early days of the faith ... gathering relics dates to the earliest days of the church, when many faithful Christians died as martyrs in religious persecutions. Witnesses to the killings ...

An Israeli air strike early on Sunday has incapacitated the last ... No casualties were reported from the strike but the Anglican church in Jerusalem – which runs the Al-Ahli Baptist hospital ...