a 1981 assassination attempt in Rome, and the most recent Holy Year in 2000, during which the church apologized for historical wrongdoings. St. John Paul II was canonized April 27, 2014, by Pope ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

A popular Sokoto-based Islamic cleric, Murtala Asada, who often criticised terrorism kingpin Bello Turji, has survived an assassination attempt at his residence in the Sokoto metropolis Some ...

detailing the secret plot to kill President John F. Kennedy and why it failed. The suspect in the little-known attempt–which took place three years before Kennedy was assassinated in Texas ...

and to this day it’s virtually impossible to find anyone who didn’t," Myers wrote of Candy Alamy Celebrated Canadian journalist Paul Myers is honoring the legacy of John Candy in a new ...

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Professor Matt Dallek, PhD with George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, who is writing a book on the history of presidential assassination attempts, told 7News he ...

Pope John Paul II, co-authored books with journalists that were personal reflections and not official papal documents. But for readers, including the Roman Catholic faithful, Hope vividly ...

One of Pope Francis’ lasting reforms will be ... including the revelation that he faced two assassination attempts during his 2021 visit to Iraq, it does not offer many new details about the ...

Violence is always a worry for world leaders, of course, and security surrounding the Pope is always heavy – not least because John Paul II was lucky to survive an assassination attempt in 1981.