Israel will immediately cut off the flow of electricity to Gaza, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen ordered Sunday. Critics ...

Pope Francis, who is responding well to treatment for pneumonia, thanked his doctors and healthcare workers Sunday as he ...

In his absence, the Vatican’s day-to-day operations continued alongside celebrations of its Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century Jubilee that brings millions of pilgrims to Rome. On Sunday, ...

Pope Francis was showing a "gradual, mild improvement" on his 23rd consecutive day in the hospital for treatment of double ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by ...

Both the Old and New Testaments provide a compelling case for affirming the historical and perpetual connection to the Land of Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces said it had forensically identified the bodies of two Israeli hostage children returned by Hamas on Thursday – Kfir Bibas and his older brother, Ariel – but that the ...

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For the faithful who have descended on Rome for an event that comes every 25 years, the absence of the pope has been ...

In an audio recording from the hospital, which was taped earlier on Thursday, the pope thanked Catholics for their prayers.

Pope Francis, 88, "remained stable compared to previous days" and did not have "episodes of respiratory insufficiency" on ...

COMMENTARY: The film’s prescription for a future pope coincides with the current Pope’s autobiographical reflections. Why ...