The No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish punched their ticket to the College Football Playoff national championship game after knocking off No. 6 Penn State 27-24 in the semifinals. Commemorate this ...

The federal appeals court based in Denver rejected an appeal on Wednesday from a citizen of Russia and Georgia who fled to ...

Brussels-based Hind Rajab Foundation, whose founder has said he was a member of the Hezbollah terrorist group, is behind ...

Church leaders have “a sense of hope for Syria’s future”, the apostolic nuncio said, after the Patriarchs and Heads of ...

IT is not the easiest question to ask, but after the passage of more than 100 years, I believe someone should ask it on behalf of this predominantly Catholic nation. This involves elevating mere ...

“[The martyrs] represent a dream for Christian community which is in some ways very Canadian — if we consider that Christ draws all peoples to himself,” he said. “Their original mission ...

Today, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Stephen, the holy protomartyr and archdeacon who became the first Christian to sacrifice his life for the faith.This marks the third day ...

On the third day of Christmas, December 27, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church commemorates the memory of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr. His name means "crown" or "wreath" and comes from the ...

Nor is Stephen’s death a one-off: it unleashes a local persecution of Christians (8:1-3 ... a man in a red hat, who clearly represents the Jewish establishment, and a Roman soldier in a ...

Pope Francis marked the day after Christmas by noting Christians are still being persecuted for their faith, as the Church celebrates the feast day of the first martyr, St. Stephen ...

This is why the Dec. 26 feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, right after Christmas Day, rightly reminds us what heeding God's will entails. Recounts the first Mass reading from the Acts ...

Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome's Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold.