Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

A boat used by migrants and confiscated on Lampedusa, sits next to a painting by Abdalla Al Omari titled The Boat during a ...

A German charity says four people, including two small children, have died during a migration voyage in the Mediterranean ...

The two children were aged 3 and 4 years old, the charity RESQSHIP said, adding that there were 59 survivors. The ...

At least three people have died, including two children aged 3 and 4, in a Mediterranean sea crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday, adding that it had rescued 59 ...

Pope Francis’ papacy shone with surprising energy and courage, driven by faith and mission. A dynamic leader, rejuvenated by ...

Wide of an area in the cemetery of Lampedusa dedicated to migrants ...

Like millions of other people, I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Pope Francis, one of the most vocal and humble ...

It is thus vital for it to grasp that crisis is where Europe finds itself today. Having long relied on China’s market for ...

and criticised countries that shunned migrants. His first trip outside Rome after he was elected pope in 2013 was to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa to pay tribute to the thousands of people ...

Sister Norma Pimentel's work with migrants caught the pope's attention in 2015. A Texas nun who advocates for immigrants is making an unexpected journey to Rome for Pope Francis' funeral a decade ...