Leo XIV’s Christmas address was his first since being elected pontiff and was scrutinized for comparisons with those of his ...

Pope Leo XIV delivers Christmas message calling for peace in Middle East and Ukraine, urging world leaders to reject violence ...

The 2023 and 2024 celebrations were canceled with a "broken heart and a broken soul," Bethlehem's mayor told NBC News, but ...

A surge in hostilities comes as the Ukraine war enters its third winter and highlights the limited impact of current ...

In his first Christmas homily, Pope Leo lamented conditions for Palestinians in Gaza and urged Ukraine and Russia to engage ...

Pope Leo has urged Ukraine and Russia to find the "courage" to hold direct talks to end the war during his first Christmas ...

Leo called for "justice, peace and stability" in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Israel and Syria, prayers for "the ...

Trump cast the Nigeria airstrikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent ...

Seventy-five years ago, Sohn Yang-young was born aboard the SS Meredith Victory which carried more than 14,000 North Korean war refugees to safety in South Korea. His birth on Christmas Day 1950 was ...

The devastation has loomed over the celebrations for the tiny Christian community in Gaza, with much of the population living ...

Pope Leo XIV on Christmas Day deplored the “falsehoods” used to justify wars that leave young people “forced to take up arms” ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.