After praying silently at King Baudouin’s tomb during his recent trip to Belgium, Pope Francis announced the opening of the king’s beatification process, news long awaited above all by those who knew ...

Pope John Paul II praised Baudouin in a 1995 general audience in which he said that 'he was a great guardian of the rights of the human conscience.' Photos of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. When ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, OFM Cap, the local ordinary the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against ...

Pope Francis prays at the tomb of King Baudouin of Belgium in the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels Sept. 28, 2024. Standing on either side of him are Queen Mathilde and King ...

Belgium’s Bachelor King Baudouin last week flew back to his dazzled homeland from the U.S. He had left Brussels three weeks before, a gloomy, aloof young monarch who seemed content to live in the ...

In the interview, the relatives reflected on how King Baudouin’s faith helped him to transmit values such as solidarity, respect for human dignity, and the defense of life in all circumstances. “What ...