VATICAN CITY: The Benetton clothing company quickly withdrew an ad featuring a fake photo of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation.
Benetton had said its "Unhate" (...)
ROME — Silvio Berlusconi survived sex scandals and corruption trials. Tawdry accounts of sexy "bunga bunga" parties turned him into an international laughing stock. Prosecutors pursued him over a mind-boggling array of suspected (...)
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI named 24 new cardinals Wednesday, putting his mark on the body that will elect his successor and giving a boost to Italian hopes to regain the papacy.
Among the new cardinals are two Americans and prelates from key (...)
NICOSIA, Cyprus: The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East, and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon have forced thousands (...)
JERUSALEM: Pope Benedict XVI called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian homeland immediately after he arrived in Israel Monday, a stance that could put him at odds with his hosts on a trip aimed at improving ties between the Vatican (...)
VATICAN CITY: The king of Saudi Arabia met Tuesday with Pope Benedict XVI - the first ever between a pontiff an a reigning Saudi monarch - amid Vatican concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in the Muslim kingdom.
The Vatican said the (...)