On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled ...

Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church, died on April 21 at the age of 88.

Various factors are at play when it comes to the decision of a burial place for a pope. Pope Francis has chosen the Basilica ...

Fresh finds beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre add hard evidence of a first-century garden and the site’s earlier life ...

Everything changed, all expectations were reversed; everything they believed about life and death had to be reevaluated.

“He gave us hope, and we will keep that hope with us forever even in this situation in Palestine”, said Na’ma Tarsha, a retiree from the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem, a part of the city occupied ...

That is the main reason most popes in history have chosen the name John. After stating his new name, the new Pope is taken to ...

He buries Jesus in his own empty tomb, in a garden. At Jesus's burial, the cemetery becomes a garden, the garden from which Adam was cast out when he abandoned the fullness of life, his Creator.

His funeral, which is expected to draw huge crowds, will take place at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) on Saturday in the square in front of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

Pope Francis' legacy will be remembered for doing all he could, while he could, and he was a servant of all, even unto his ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will file past his open casket ...