THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five centuries after it was boiled and placed on a pike. St Dunstan’s Church in ...

An estimated 10,000 Korean Catholics were killed for their faith in bouts of persecution that lasted about 100 years ...

The martyrs include three French missionaries and a Korean priest executed for violating a ban on Christianity ...

An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

The Archdiocese of San Antonio will commemorate the 137th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Anacleto González Flores, the ...

The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus -- the Feast of All Antiochian ...

The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus — the Feast of All Antiochian Saints. During this June 22 service, a jihadi ...

A church bombing in Damascus killed worshippers during a feast day. The Antiochian Church honors them as new martyrs, echoing ...

Henry VIII’s close adviser was resolute in upholding secular and spiritual authorities over individual judgment. When it came ...