Macon native Jeff Battcher said he was at the Vatican in November 2022, just feet away, when Pope Francis blessed the ...

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...

The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ...

Bari is the largest city and the capital of the Puglia region in southern Italy. A captivating port city, Bari boasts ...

A mean-spirited vandal broke into a church in São Paulo, Brazil and destroyed two statues, surveillance video shows. The man approached a worshipper in between masses at the Bom Jesus das ...

A statue of the dog character Gyoza-ken Jubee, dressed in a gyoza dumpling costume, was unveiled at JR Utsunomiya Station in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 1. Gyoza is a ...

Georgia enacted its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law on Friday, becoming the 30th state to pass similar legislation. The vote fell perfectly along party lines in the Georgia ...

XIAMEN: Two statues of Mazu, or the “Goddess of the Sea” have been flown from Xiamen to Taiwan after the airline issued a special boarding pass under the name “Lin Mo,” to denote a ...