In Turkey, Christians gathered at the Greek Orthodox Church in Mersin for the Easter Sunday service. Worshippers were seen performing a candlelight vigil and lining up to sing holy songs as they ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

For the second consecutive year, Palestinian Christians marked Easter on Sunday without joy or festivity as Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank entered their 19th month. In Gaza ...

Another church, St Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church, has also been bombed. But the Holy Family Church is still a refuge. People gather inside the church every day, piano music accompanies hymns ...

In the Gaza Strip, where no food or aid has been allowed in by the Israeli military for nearly 50 days, people observed Easter on Sunday at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza ...

His three children were killed by an Israeli airstrike, on an annex of Gaza's Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church ... Israel's bombing campaign has intensified. Palestinian health officials ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He ...

In December, Francis expressed his pain thinking of Gaza, “of such cruelty, to the machine-gunning of children, to the bombing ... who is Greek Orthodox, had sheltered at the church compound ...