"Miracles do come true." This statement reverberated across the Philippines on Wednesday as Filipinos rejoiced at the news that 30-year-old drug convict Mary Jane Veloso, their countryman facing a firing squad in Indonesia, was given a reprieve by Indonesian President Joko Widodo literally at the ...
Pope Francis flew back to Rome on Monday after completing an epic five-day visit to the Philippines where he made history by drawing nearly 7 million people in his closing Mass amid stormy weather in Manila. It was the "largest event of the history of the Popes," according to Vatican spokesman ...
Speaking frankly, Pope Francis told Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Friday to end corruption in his government and to hear the cries of the poor suffering from "scandalous social inequalities." At the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila during an official welcoming ceremony on the ...
Church bells rang throughout the Philippines as millions of Filipinos joyfully greeted the arrival of Pope Francis on Thursday evening with people from all walks of life lining the streets of Manila while the rest watched the historic event unfold on live television.
Breaking with tradition and at the same time bending Vatican rules, Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals coming from various far-flung corners of the world. It was the second time he made such major appointments in his less than two years at the helm of the Roman Catholic Church.
Exploding verbal fireworks on New Year's Eve, Pope Francis vigorously denounced corruption in Rome, disclosing a "mafia-like" organization within the halls of the city government.
Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who plays the role of the bow-and-arrow-wielding heroine Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" trilogy, has hit the box office bull's-eye. Lawrence, 24, tops the list of the highest-grossing actors at the box office in 2014, according to Forbes.
Thanks to the power of meditation, tranquility has come to the schools located in one of the poorest and violence-wracked neighborhoods of San Francisco, California.
Facebook wanted to please its users; instead it terribly annoyed some of them. When it rolled out its annual "Year in Review" feature recently, Facebook thought it would delight its users by having a photo slideshow of their "best" moments in 2014 with just one click of their mouse. But instead of getting "likes," the special feature turned off a number of users.
North Korea has called the film an "act of war." But to the millions of moviegoers who watched "The Interview" in more than 300 movie theaters all over the United States on Christmas Day, it was just a funny movie.
In his Christmas Day message on Thursday, Pope Francis directly called on God to ease the suffering of Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria who are suffering from a "brutal persecution" by Islamic State insurgents.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.