After an exuberant kick-off event on Saturday, Francis gathered together with tens of thousands of children in St. Peter’s Square for Mass on Holy Trinity Sunday. Pope Francis greets thousands of ...

Last month, Pope Francis hosted the inaugural Catholic World Children’s Day in Rome. The idea was born last summer after a 9-year-old boy made the suggestion to Pope Francis that children should have ...

Pope Francis celebrated the first ever World Children’s Day this weekend, which brought together 50,000 children from 100 countries in Rome’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday, May 25, and in St. Peter’s ...

World Children’s Day—celebrated every year on November 20—marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international human rights treaty ...

Every year on November 14, India celebrates Children’s Day, not just to remember Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s affection for children, but also to remind the nation that its future rests in young hands.