Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining ...

Further reading: Pope Francis shows signs of recovery On March 17, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin—the Holy See’s “number two”—stated that he had ...

As on every fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome displayed the Veil of Veronica for public veneration. But what ...

In a town in Central China's Hubei province, 28-year-old Ren Yang makes handcrafted wooden plaques and sells them to customers in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries.

Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from hospital on Sunday ... a Byzantine-style painting on wood that is revered by Romans. Earlier, before he left the hospital, the pontiff thumbs up and ...

Pope Francis appeared on a hospital balcony Sunday to bless the crowd in his first public outing in five weeks and ahead of his release from the hospital after surviving a life-threatening bout of ...

Pope Francis is to make his first public appearance in five weeks before he is discharged from hospital. Francis survived a severe case of pneumonia that twice threatened his life and raised the ...

Pope Francis is now on his 35th day in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, in stable condition and slowly but surely recovering from pneumonia in both lungs, as his doctors confirmed yesterday, March 19 ...

In his first general audience of the year, Pope Francis called on the global community to eradicate child labor, urging that we "cannot remain indifferent, cannot accept that little sisters and ...

Pope Francis has suspended the use of an oxygen mask, the Vatican said on Wednesday, adding that the 88-year-old's clinical condition was "improving" after more than one month in hospital.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ’ condition continued to improve Wednesday and he hasn’t needed to use the mechanical ventilation mask to help him breathe, the Vatican said in signaling further ...

Pope Francis’s condition continued to improve on Wednesday and he no longer needs to use non-invasive mechanical ventilation to help him breathe at night, the Vatican said. The pontiff, 88, is also ...