The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact, and those will now fall under his purview ...

Pope Francis is no longer considered in imminent danger from his lung infection, but he will remain in Rome's Gemelli hospital for several more days to continue receiving medical treatment, the ...

As season five of the hit television series *The Chosen* launches, Noah James said audiences are in for a surreal experience as the story approaches Holy Week.

As Pope Francis' condition remains stable, which is a sign of continued improvement, he followed the start of the Lenten retreat for the Roman Curia by video linkup and met again with two top Vatican ...

The world is a hot mess right now. I am not sure there is a better way to say that. Everything feels upside down and unbelievable. Pope Francis declared a jubilee year of hope; now he’s praying for a ...

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers.

The world needs the "miracle of tenderness" brought by people who accompany those experiencing illness or adversity, Pope ...

Poland's day of prayer for victims of clerical sexual abuse, scheduled each year for the first Friday in Lent, was overshadowed March 7 by a controversial opinion from the legal council of the Polish ...

Catholics in the small town of Uxbridge northeast of Toronto could always count on Sacred Heart Parish being there for them.

Even as they began the busy work of transferring episcopal responsibility for Vancouver, it was the health of Pope Francis ...

The Catholic Register*'s Ottawa Correspondent Susan Korah has been recognized with the King Charles III Coronation Medal, a ...