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ROME -- Traffic noise floated through an open window as a Bangladeshi migrant named Nanue Matabor took a seat inside a tiny immigration office in central Rome. Only 19, Mr. [...]

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Pope Francis on Sunday finished his visit to the conflict-torn Caucasus region with a stop in Azerbaijan, a predominantly Shiite Muslim country, where he pleaded with leaders [...]

TBILISI, Georgia -- Pope Francis, accustomed to huge, usually adulatory crowds during his international trips, got an early taste of how his two-day visit to Georgia would be a bit [...]

ROME -- Leaders of gay Catholic groups on Monday praised Pope Francis for saying that all Christians and the Roman Catholic Church owed an apology to gays for previous mistreatment, [...]

LONDON -- The crisis ritual that will play out this week in Europe is all too familiar: Markets will gyrate. National leaders will huddle. A summit meeting in Brussels will [...]

LONDON -- Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union is already threatening to unravel a democratic bloc of nations that has coexisted peacefully together for decades. But it is [...]

LONDON -- From Brussels to Berlin to Washington, leaders of the Western democratic world awoke Friday morning to a blunt, once-unthinkable rebuke delivered by the flinty citizens of a small [...]

ROME -- Among the well-heeled bureaucrats of the European Union, it is an article of faith that the bloc always emerges stronger from a crisis. The idealistic founders who six [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDROME -- By Monday morning, the grim, if now familiar, global ritual had begun. Leaders across Europe, Asia and elsewhere sent messages of sympathy and outrage. Editorialists opined against [...]

ROME -- The migrant ships kept sinking. First came a battered, blue-decked vessel that flipped over on Wednesday as terrified migrants plunged into the Mediterranean Sea. The next day, a [...]

ROME -- On a perfect May afternoon, with the Roman sunlight glinting off the ancient arches of the Colosseum, Officer Pang Bo adjusted his sunglasses and began his patrol. More [...]

MONTERCHI, Italy -- There wasn't much suspense when the Monterchi City Council recently considered the latest request to borrow the Madonna del Parto, this tiny hilltop town's exquisite 15th-century fresco. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by Donald J. Trump's grip on the Republican presidential nomination, world leaders are wrestling with the possibility that, even if he loses the general election, his ascent [...]

ROME -- Back in 2004, Elio Ciampanella was evicted from his apartment of three decades. He found housing as a live-in caregiver to a disabled child but still wanted a [...]

MYTILENE, Greece -- Pope Francis made an emotional visit into the heart of Europe's migrant crisis on Saturday and took 12 Muslim refugees from Syria, including six children, with him [...]

MESSINA, Sicily -- The old music school is overflowing. The building is now a migrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, able to house 224 teenagers -- except that it is overstuffed [...]

ROME -- In a broad proclamation on family life, Pope Francis on Friday called for the Roman Catholic Church to be more welcoming and less judgmental, and he seemingly signaled [...]

ROME -- At 256 pages and 391 footnotes, the apostolic exhortation Pope Francis issued on Friday is a lengthy reminder of the importance he places on family, if also a [...]

In what could be an important moment for his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis is scheduled to issue a major document on Friday regarding family issues. It [...]

The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many [...]

MYTILENE, Greece -- Standing on the southern coastline of the island of Lesbos, Molhim Zreiki peered through binoculars across the narrow strait of the Aegean Sea dividing Greece from Turkey. [...]

IDOMENI, Greece -- Taha al-Ahmad's family is sleeping in mud. His youngest daughter, age 1, lies beneath wet blankets, coughing inside their soggy tent. It has rained for days. Portable [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMILAN -- The waiters glided through the crowded dining room of InGalera, a restaurant that opened recently to rave reviews. Dinner reservations are almost fully booked for March, and [...]

MILAN -- Standing in the art-soaked splendor of a Milanese parlor as an array of A-list Italian business leaders listened intently, Howard D. Schultz, chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, [...]

ROME -- Roughly five weeks ago, Donald Tusk, one of the European Union's most powerful political figures, issued a blunt warning to its 28 countries: Come up with a coherent [...]

ROME -- In the cage fight of American presidential politics, the matchup is irresistible: Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, the pope of the poor who [...]

SÈO PAULO, Brazil -- Pope Francis shook up an already intense debate over birth control and abortion in Latin American countries where the Zika virus is causing a public health [...]

ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRLINER -- Inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, Pope Francis on Wednesday suggested that Donald J. Trump ''is not Christian'' because of the harshness of his [...]

CIUDAD JUÂREZ, Mexico -- Stepping to the concrete edge of the Rio Grande, Pope Francis on Wednesday went to a militarized divide of the United States-Mexican border and prayed for [...]

MORELIA, Mexico -- Pope Francis delivered his most searing indictment of the Mexican underworld Tuesday, encouraging the nation's youth to value themselves and resist the temptation to join forces with [...]

SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico -- Pope Francis came to the highlands of Mexico's southern frontier on Monday to offer a pastoral embrace to the region's impoverished indigenous people, [...]

ECATEPEC, Mexico -- Pope Francis stepped into the heartland of Mexican inequality on Sunday, presiding over an enormous outdoor Mass in the impoverished outskirts of the capital and urging the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHAVANA -- Pope Francis on Friday became the first pontiff to ever meet a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, as the two Christian leaders set aside centuries of [...]

MEXICO CITY -- For more than a century, the Mexican government has treated the Catholic Church with a deep suspicion, if not outright hostility. Battles have literally been fought between [...]

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will travel to Cuba on Feb. 12 for a historic meeting with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the first meeting between a pope [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDROME -- Along the broad boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square, the faithful pressed forward. Nuns pointed cellphone cameras. Others stood on tiptoes, trying to catch a glimpse. Squadrons [...]

ROME -- Italy has given Europe many things, but rarely leadership. Among member states of the European Union, Italy is important but not always influential, partly because of the decades-old [...]

ROME -- Six years ago, Andrea Rubera married his partner in Canada, where the couple later became parents of three young children. But when they returned to their native Italy, [...]

ROME -- In Finland, militia groups are patrolling small towns housing asylum seekers in the name of protecting white Finnish women. In Germany, far-right protesters rampaged through Leipzig on Monday, [...]

PARIS -- On both sides of the Atlantic, the fast-moving investigation into the deadly Paris terrorist attacks steadily accumulated clues on Sunday: a car discovered in the Parisian suburbs with [...]

PARIS -- The night was chilly but thick with excitement as the big match between France's national soccer team and archrival Germany was underway at the national stadium in a [...]

VATICAN CITY -- Ever since it became public that Pope Francis met in Washington with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, [...]

After a busy morning addressing a joint meeting of Congress and mingling with the homeless at an outdoor lunch, Pope Francis decamped to the heavily barricaded Vatican Embassy in Washington [...]

ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRPLANE -- Hours after meeting with sexual abuse victims in Philadelphia, Pope Francis on Sunday night again strongly condemned priests who molested children as ''sacrilegious'' and publicly [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPHILADELPHIA -- Six days ago, Pope Francis landed in Washington for his first visit to the United States -- a country that he did not know and that did [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Standing near Independence Hall, where America's founding documents were signed, Pope Francis on Saturday called religious freedom a ''fundamental right'' and laid out a broad and tolerant vision [...]