SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria—At the Sayyida Zeinab Shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or fervently murmur invocations as they press their faces ...

The council confirmed that Jesus was one person with two natures ... who died in 1669 after a two-year pontificate, to be entombed in Saint Mary Major. He will join Clement and six other popes ...

Under a bill that is scheduled for a vote in the Senate, it would be illegal to entomb live bats in an unoccupied structure ...

Alternative scholarly works of the life of Jesus Christ open up several possibilities and interpretations absent in the four gospels writes PRANAV KHULLARThe missing years between the ages of 13 and 3 ...

Alternative scholarly works of the life of Jesus Christ open up several possibilities and interpretations ... Roza Bal the sculptor having clearly drawn the footscars of the person entombed there ...

The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this was the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903, and was entombed in another Roman basilica in ...

The basilica’s website says recent studies have dated the wood from the period of Jesus’s birth. Francis, who died on Monday aged 88, was be the first pontiff in more than a century not to be entombed ...

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his ...

Francis declared his desire to be entombed in the basilica -- known in ... including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, attributed to Saint Luke. It also holds pieces of wood ...

He was a very charismatic pope, very human, very kind, above all very human,” said Miguel Vaca, a pilgrim from Peru. “It is a very great emotion to say goodbye to him.” ...

According to Vatican estimates, some 250,000 people flocked to the funeral Mass at the Vatican and 150,000 more lined the motorcade route through downtown Rome to witness the first funeral procession ...

Pope Francis shifted attitudes. He has changed the church," says one mourner who stood outside the funeral proceedings.