The Vatican has said Francis would participate “in spiritual communion” with the rest of the hierarchy, from afar. In its early update Monday, the Vatican said Francis was resting after a ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have seized the Iraqi city of Tal Afar in the northern Nineveh province. Iraqi media reported that the ISIS militants have entered ...