President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday congratulated Pope Leo XIV on his election as the new leader of the Catholic ...

Church leaders in Asia have welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s election, expressing hope that he will continue his ministry focusing on ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Roman Catholic Cardinals were set to cast a first round of ballots for a new pope on Wednesday in the Vatican's Sistine ...

Cardinals prepared to cast fresh votes Thursday for the next head of the Catholic Church, after sending up a second round of ...

Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a ...

Red-robed cardinals assembled in the Vatican on Wednesday to pray, shortly before being locked in to elect a new pope to lead ...

As an associate pastor, then-Father Ranjith was "a very energetic young priest" with a strong affinity for the poor, like ...

The co-ordinated suicide bomber attacks by a group of misguided Muslim zealots against three Churches and four Luxury hotels in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Easter Sunday (21st April) in 2019 ...

Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to ...

Sri Lankan archbishop announces that 167 Catholics killed in the Easter bombings of 2019 will be included on list of ...