The spruce tree hailed from Italy's German-speaking majority autonomous province on the Austrian border, while the life-size Nativity scene was designed by the Nocera Inferiore-Sarno diocese in the southern Campania province, featuring architectural elements from the region
16 December,2025 09:44 AM IST | Vatican City | APThe Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artefacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church's troubled role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas
23 October,2025 07:39 PM IST | Vatican City | APWhile the king and queen delayed their formal state visit in April, they met privately with Francis during their four-day state visit to Italy
27 September,2025 09:30 AM IST | London | APThe excavation of a mass grave containing nearly 800 infants and young children on the site of a former mother and baby home in Ireland has forced the nation and the Catholic Church to confront a dark history. The home, run by the Bon Secours Sisters, was part of a cruel system that shunned unmarried mothers and separated them from their children
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