Climate activists have launched a campaign in the northern Italian province of Trentino to prevent a 29-meter tall silver fir ...

This year, a Christmas tree might not appear in St. Peter's Square ... The Ledro community has issued a special petition to ...

Pope Francis has been quite outspoken about the need to safeguard the environment but now the decision to chop down a ...

Critics say the tradition of gifting a tree to the Vatican’s Christmas display is a ‘useless sacrifice’ and is against the ...

Roughly 40,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Green Giant from being cut down, slamming putting up Christmas trees ...

2023 8:36 a.m. ROME — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in ...

Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he presides over Christmas Eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Recalling Jesus' birth in a ...

The Pope should stop this unnecessary anachronistic destruction. The residents of the Val di Ledro in Trentino are revolting ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

Church of the Nativity hosts pilgrims on Christmas Eve Pope Francis, the leader of roughly 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, is himself the grandson of Italian migrants. He said many of today's ...

Tuesday, Dec. 24, 10:30 p.m. “Christmas Eve Mass“ Viewers will be able to watch the Pope Francis-led mass from St. Peter’s ...

The committees also refer to Pope Francis's historic encyclical Laudato Si': "We ask ... An initiative introduced by John ...