Roman Catholic German Emperor Maximilian I is captured in Belgium. 1597: A group of early Japanese Christians, known as ...

Luxembourg City is the capital of the small, landlocked European country, Luxembourg. The city, with a population of aro ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines, for decades, has been the stronghold of Catholicism in Asia, with almost 80 percent of the population identifying themselves as Roman Catholic. Since the ...

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

In 2011, the design firm Gijs Van Vaerenbergh unveiled a 10-meter-high steel optical illusion that doubles as a church in Borgloon, Belgium ... a newly built Catholic church offers hope and ...

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Days after protests erupted over Goma's fall to M23 rebels and Rwandan forces, Kinshasa remained paralyzed. Fear has halted ...

A shortage of religion teachers in the Flemish-speaking north of Belgium forced Catholic education officials to drop the ...

For the first time in 750 years, the face of St Thomas Aquinas has been reconstructed using forensic science, offering a ...

Pope Francis appointed Wednesday morning a new leader of the Catholic Church in metro Detroit, naming Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger of Tucson, Arizona, as the next archbishop of Detroit, replacing ...