Vatican

Poland-born Vatican priest Krzyztof Charamsa announces he is in gay relationship stoking fresh controversy.

'Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on Earth, there can be other beings… created by God'

Man also wants priest to be punished after subjecting him to abuse in school in the 1970s.

Pope Francis says the secret to his energy levels is not 'drugs'.

Speaking in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Pope Francis calls for just economic order.

Founder of Neocatechumenal Way group tells Family Day rally child murder is linked to atheism and lack of love.

Italy's anti-immigration Northern League leader Matteo Salvini attacks pontiff over refugees appeal.

Criminal trial of former Holy See envoy to the Dominican Republic to start in July.

Kremlin leader's legendary lateness strikes again on Italian trip.

69-year-old from New Zealand and 58-year-old from Ireland rescued from faulty Marist convent lift.

Holy See already provides the homeless with showers and free barber service.

Kremlin strongman is to make an official trip to Italy days after G7 leaders meet without him.

President of the Holy See's council for family matters reportedly accused of price fixing, criminal conspiracy and fraud.

Holy See secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin attacks pro-LGBT rights vote.

Four new female saints are to be canonised at a ceremony in the Vatican by Pope Francis.

Holy See officially recognises Palestinian state ahead of canonisation of mother Marie Alphonsine and Mariam Baouardy.

IBTimes UK went to Milan to understand how Universal Exhibitions serve as platforms for diplomacy and business.

Investigators believe St. Peter's Square throngs were target

Clergyman charged with murder of Cà Raffaello parishioner who disappeared in 2014.

Mehmet Görmez, Turkey's head of religious affairs, says pontiff's comment on Armenian killings is baseless.

An Italian priest is alleged to have searched the internet for gay lovers and is accused of being involved in gay orgies.

Pope Francis led the traditional Easter Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square in the Vatican City during a torrential downpour.

Pontiff condemns 'senseless' killings of Christians after al-Shabaab Kenya attack.

During Maundy Thursday mass in St Peter's Basilica the Pope heightened speculation that he might step down due to exhaustion

Pontiff calls only the 27th Jubilee in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Soldiers will guard sensitive sites and potential targets until at least June.

The document will be presented to Rome's Pontifical Council for Culture on 4 to 7 February.

Security around Vatican has been tightened amid fears of Isis terrorist attack on head of Roman Catholic Church.

Few days earlier, Pope Francis said Catholics did not need to 'breed like rabbits'.

Pontiff has named cardinals mostly from Africa and Asia in a bid to move away from Vatican's Eurocentric periphery.