At the start of Benedict's tenure in 2007, the newly-installed pope met with Putin for what was considered at the time to be the highest-level Kremlin-Vatican talks in more than three years ...

A big story the past year has been the firming alliance between the world’s two leading autocrats, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China ... the West is finished—Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Christian leaders from Ukraine will be at the Vatican on Wednesday to meet with the pope, who continues to be criticized by ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hailed the late pope Benedict XVI as a "defender of traditional Christian values". "Benedict XVI was an eminent religious and state figure ...

The Ukrainian people are grateful to Pope Francis for his prayers, for providing humanitarian aid and, above all, for the ...

Those conservative Christians in the United States who delude themselves that President Vladimir Putin and Russia, under his ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday called Pope Francis “un-Christian” for his remarks about the cruelty of ethnic minority Russian soldiers in Ukraine. “Pope Francis calls for talks ...

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin described Pope Benedict XVI as “a prominent religious figure and statesman (and) a staunch defender of traditional Christian values.” Japanese Prim ...

Getty Images Then Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Vatican in 2007. AP Benedict XVI died at 9:34 AM local time in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City.

Pope Francis criticized "unjust" laws criminalizing homosexuality in an interview Tuesday. "Being homosexual isn't a crime," he told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview at the Vatican, ...

Pope Francis greets people as he attends a holy mass at Bahrain National Stadium during his apostolic journey, in Riffa, ...

At the start of Benedict's tenure in 2007, the newly-installed pope met with Putin for what was considered at the time to be the highest-level Kremlin-Vatican talks in more than three years ...