a few parrots and a chicken queued up alongside their owners outside a church in Madrid on Friday, waiting their turn to be blessed by a Catholic priest in a popular annual ritual. In Spain ...

MADRID — Dozens of dogs and cats, a few parrots and a chicken queued up alongside their owners outside a church in Madrid on ... a popular annual ritual. In Spain, the feast day of Saint Anthony ...

(AP Photo/Paul White) MADRID Spain (AFP) — Spain's left-wing government on Tuesday upped the pressure on the Catholic Church to compensate victims of sexual abuse committed on its watch. Unlike in ...

Pet owners in Madrid had their animals blessed at Saint Anthony Church, a tradition believed to bring health and protection, ...

Only a handful of synagogues are known to have survived long after the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. MADRID (JTA) — Archaeologists working in a town in southwestern Spain have excavated ...

A new scandal has erupted in Spain when more than one in ... according to an official report published in Madrid. The record of the Spanish Catholic Church is not encouraging, the latest ...