Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a second Christmas Eve ...

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

Pope Francis is expected to address the world's wars and conflicts in his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message to the faithful ...

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

Pope Francis presides over the Christmas Eve mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Christmas revellers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit ...

From inside the walls of Rome’s largest prison, Christmas hymns rang out as inmates and prison guards together sang “Silent Night” and exchanged the sign of peace during an intimate Mass led ...

Pope Francis leads Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican after the opening of the basilica's holy doors marking the start of the Catholic Jubilee year 2025, Vatican, December 24, ...

Pope Francis kicked off the event while opening ... the biggest event of the year with the Pope is Easter Sunday Mass, which usually draws 60,000 people." "The people traveling to Rome will ...

The intimate Mass led by Pope Francis marked a historic moment — the first opening of a jubilee Holy Door within a prison.

Vatican City: Pope Francis said ... Catholics into Christmas. Francis, celebrating the 12th Christmas of his pontificate, presided at a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and ...

Churches faced with empty pews are fighting to keep their doors open, while former houses of worship are being converted into ...

The unlocking of the Holy Door at St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve by Pope Francis — the event that ... Peter's square during the Christmas Eve mass launching Jubilee 2025.