At least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, Gaza's health ministry said Friday, ...

No aid has yet reached Gaza's population, representative and country director of World Food Programme, Antoine Renard, warned ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, succeeding the late Pope Francis. Addressing a large crowd from St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV called for ...

MANILA, Philippines — While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the country is highly anticipated, this time as the ...

VATICAN CITY-Pope Leo XIV took his first trip outside the Vatican on May 10, heading about an hour’s drive east of Rome for a visit to a Catholic shrine and stopping on the way back to pay ...

Pope Leo XIV called for genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message ...

Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, May 10, 2025. VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying ...

To many Peruvians, however, Leo is more than the first pope from the U.S. He is also the first Peruvian pope. Pope Leo, born on the South Side of Chicago, first arrived in Peru in 1985 as a ...

Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit Saturday to a sanctuary south of Rome that is dedicated to the Madonna and of significance to his Augustinian order. Townspeople of Genazzano gathered in the ...

Experts say Leo should lead with a worldwide view and seek peace. In an instant, Cardinal Robert Prevost became the most powerful and influential American Catholic when he was selected to be pope ...

Pope Leo XIV made history on Thursday when he became the first U.S.-born — and the first Augustinian — to assume the papacy, and many of his fellow Augustinians in the United States are ...

Prevost ultimately went with Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903. "He could have been Francis II, and we would have said, ‘Oh, there he is clearly in the line of ...