SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes her seat in the visitors' gallery of the German Bundestag for the election of the Chancellor. The election and swearing-in of the German Chancellor and the ...

Earlier this summer, the Vatican published the papal encyclical Laudato Si’, promoting sustainable development and environmentalism, and Pope Francis subsequently declared his intention to deliver an ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who "ridicule those who speak of global warming," as he strongly embraced Pope Francis' environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his ...

Pope Leo XIV recently assumed the role of the leader of the Catholic Church, and I find myself curious to know what the topic of his first papal encyclical -- a letter to the bishops concerning ...