The special event is expected to attract about 25 million visitors to participate in Rome's religious celebrations.

By drawing comparisons with other city-states like Venice, Monaco, and Vatican City, the documentary explores how city-states remain relevant in a competitive globalised world while grappling with ...

Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is not expected ... that would certainly make (Vatican officials) draw back," said Rooney, a former Republican congressman. "The one person they're not ...

Writing in Crisis Magazine, editor Eric Sammons said Vance was merely drawing on the wisdom ... the United States." The Vatican, a walled-in, 44-hectare (108-acre) city state inside Rome, recently ...

Pope Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the migrant crackdown in a letter Tuesday to U.S. bishops who have criticized the expulsions as harming the most vulnerable.

GOMA, Congo — When Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border to the eastern Congo city of Goma, he knew the risks of ...

Here are the smallest nations in the world, arranged by area: Vatican City, the world’s smallest sovereign city ... and views of the Mediterranean, drawing tourists with its old-world charm. Nauru ...

Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to U.S. bishops in which he appeared to ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the governor of the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory in Rome that is home to the Catholic ...