Cuba said this week that it was releasing 553 prisoners “in the spirit of" Francis' 2025 Holy Year and had informed the pope of its decision ahead of time. The move came a day after the Biden ...

Pope Francis, who is 88 years old, is experiencing a deterioration in his health as he battles bilateral pneumonia. The ...

One faith-based aid group that appears to be surviving Mr. Trump’s drastic cuts is Samaritan’s Purse, the behemoth ...

Francis travelled later to the eastern city of Santiago to visit the shrine to the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, seen as Cuba’s patron saint by the Catholic church. After speaking on Sunday at the huge ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday ... still others are being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Vance, a Catholic convert, has defended the administration ...

The change to Cuba’s status came as Trump signed 78 executive ... The de-listing was part of a secret deal negotiated by Pope Francis and the Vatican to win the release more than 550 Cuban ...

Pope Francis criticized President Trump’s mass deportation plans in a letter urging compassion and the preservation of ...

On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...

Pope Francis has issued a strong rebuke of the mass deportations carried out by Donald Trump's administration in the United ...