The tour from April 7 to 10 will include two state visits, to Rome and Ravenna in Italy, and to the Holy See in the Vatican.

Francis was elected on March 13 2013 as the 266th pontiff and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American choice.

Wirral Council said the school's commitment ... Connell's parents revealed the diary she kept of her suffering at St Wilfred Roman Catholic School in Ripon, North Yorkshire, as she was driven ...

Included amongst the early adopters are about 105 primary schools across the North West. Here are all of the ones that will ...

It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and marble busts of Roman emperors. After being locked away for much of the 20th century, the collection toured Europe in a ...

They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive walls and stone forts to protect their new territory. We can still see ...

Tickets for BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in Sefton Park go on sale today with thousands of music fans across the UK expected to queue online for tickets. The event will take place from ...

The teams behind the country’s most exciting building projects are in competition for the British Construction and Property Awards. The final shortlist has been unveiled ahead of the May 15 gala ...

The term “Judaeo-Christian” became a means of bringing together heretofore disparate religious groups — Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish — in a slightly less WASPish America. Having gained ...

Whatever the reasons for its inception, the wall stood as one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. It was also rebuilt and extended numerous times throughout the Roman ...