ASSISI, Italy — In the silence of St. Mary Major Church in this central Italian hill town, a tour group of Polish teenagers files past a glass-sided tomb to look in on a child of their own age. His ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the canonization of the first millennial saint during the Vatican’s Holy Year.

KWETHLUK — A procession of boats shot up the glassy Kuskokwim River on Thursday morning in low fog, passing fish camps, eroded banks and tangles of alder, ferrying pilgrims on their way to witness ...