ROME (AP) -- The Beijing bishop appointed by China's state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and that relations with the Vatican are improving....

POPE Benedict XVI called today for the "immediate opening" of humanitarian corridors between Georgia and the Moscow-backed separatist South Ossetia region to aid victims of the conflict.

BRESSANONE, Italy (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to China on Sunday before the Olympics and said he hoped the Games would offer an example of coexistence among people from different countries....

BOLZANO, Italy, July 28 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI will spend the next two weeks in a German-speaking mountain town in northern Italy along with his cat, Milly, and his brother Georg Ratzinger.

VATICAN CITY, July 25 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI urged greater security for Iraq's Christian minority Friday in an audience with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.