After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

More than 20 monks and officials from 12 countries visited the Lama Temple and the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, as well as the Sera Monastery, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Tibet ...

Their lives intertwined further when Benedict stepped down from the papacy in 2013 and Francis ascended to the role. It ...

At Drepung monastery thousands of red-robed lamas crouched ... in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was ...

MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) - Russian forces have retaken a monastery in Russia's Kursk region where Ukrainian troops had been holed up, state media reported on Tuesday. TASS news agency quoted a ...

Pray for me, as I will pray for you": with these words, recorded with a tired voice, Pope Francis wanted to send his last personal message to the Franciscan Poor Clares of the Monastery of ...