Vatican Radio is launching a news programme in a language often described as dead - the ancient language of Latin. The five minute programme is entitled "Hebdomada Papae", which can be translated at ...
The Vatican has recognised Palestine as a state and says that it hopes a peaceful outcome will end the conflict in the region. In 2012 the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution re...
The Vatican has officially recognised the state of Palestine in a move that has left Israel 'disappointed'. Holy See officials agreed to a treaty today which makes clear the Church now considers Pale...
The Vatican has reportedly declined to provide witnesses and evidence regarding child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. According to The Times, the British independent inquiry into child sexual abu...
Bishops around the world have been sent a new questionnaire ahead of another Vatican synod on the family. The October meeting is being treated as a preliminary discussion for the synod next year.Now ...
The Vatican has created new online guidelines to help the Church combat the "ugly business" of human trafficking. The handbook - named "Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking" is split into ten s...
The Vatican's released a video urging believers to pray for persecuted Christians around the world. The video features three Christians being photographed for mugshots like criminals, symbolising the...
The Vatican has refused to comment on whether Catholic teaching on the use of contraception should be relaxed during the outbreak of the Zika virus. Catholic nation Brazil is the epicentre of an outb...
The chief representative of the Vatican at the UN headquarters has again urged international leaders to do more to stop the persecution of Christians in Iraq. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said officials...
Christians are celebrating the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus' manger. It has been returned nearly 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to th...
Organisers of an upcoming Vatican summit on sex abuse prevention are warning that the credibility of the Catholic Church is in jeopardy over the abuse scandal a In a letter sent to the presidents of ...
The Vatican is urging Catholic countries not to allow deconsecrated churches to be used for "inappropriate activities". At a recent conference titled 'Doesn't God Live Here Anymore?', delegates discu...
A Vatican representative has said that the United Nations (UN) needs to take the needs of Christians as well as other religious minorities into account when dis The UN has asked different groups to c...
USA Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders will not be meeting Pope Francis on his visit to Rome, according to the Vatican. He plans to take a break from campaigning to speak at a special Vatican conferen...
The Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin will not be testifying during the Vati-leaks scandal that has embroiled the heart of Catholicism in recen It had been that he may have testified...
The Vatican has been forced to apologise to Mexico, after the Pope insulted the country by referring to the "Mexicanization" of his native Argentina from drug t According to AP, the Holy See has issu...
Catholics from around the world will gather in Rome this weekend to celebrate the canonisation of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII. The ceremony in St Peter's Square will be led by Pope Francis ...
The special envoy sent to Chile by the Pope to investigate allegations of a sex abuse cover-up is in hospital after taking ill in the country. The problems affecting Charles Scicluna are not extremel...
The Vatican has signed a treaty, officially recognising the Palestine as a state for the first time. Church officials said it hoped accepting the existence of Palestine would help peace between the c...
Email addresses with links to the Vatican were used by some people who signed up to adultery website Ashley Madison, hackers have claimed. A group, which is unhappy at the moral nature of the website...
