ROME– The Sant’Egidio Community has appealed for the resumption of peace negotiations in Colombia amid signs an end to 50 years of bloody internal conflict is near.

ROME- Police are hunting for thieves who stole a precious ampoule of Pope John Paul II’s blood from a shrine in the region of Abruzzo this week.

NAPLES, FLORIDA-"The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments ... the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb." -

ROME - As many as 5.459,000 people visited the Vatican Museums in 2013 and the number is expected to increase in 2014, posing some logistical problems for the tiny city state, the Holy See says.

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VATICAN CITY -- Radical movement, We Are the Church, have written to the pope in response to his recent interview with a prominent Jesuit magazine.