European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday backed a proposed unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the ...

At exactly 9 PM, the first smoke appeared from the chimney of St. Peter's: black, meaning that the cardinals have not yet ...

Only one voting session is permitted on the first day. After that, voting sessions occur twice in the morning and twice in ...

Black smoke billowed over the Vatican on Wednesday to signal that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority of ...

The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals have voted but haven’t reached a two-thirds consensus required to elect a successor ...

This has since evolved into an unambiguous method for generating the required smoke signals. The result is a deliberately ... Over the years, the papal conclave smoke signal has evolved from an ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the ...

When cardinals elect a successor for Pope Francis, the first indication will not be a communiqué or a social media post, but a puff of white smoke. But the centuries-old tradition has changed over ...

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signalling that cardinals meeting in ...

Catholic cardinals are continuing their secret conclave to elect the next pope, with voting resuming on Thursday morning. On ...

I hope that this evening when I return to Rome, I will already find the white smoke. I am particularly pleased to be here at ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which will be used in burning the ballots for the conclave that will elect a ...