Tucked away in the Gothic Quarter, the Church of Saint Philip Neri is a baroque beauty with a tragic history. It was heavily damaged during the Spanish Civil War, and you can still see the bomb ...

A church in Spain has been under construction for more than 140 years, which is far longer than the 20 years it took to build the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. La Sagrada Familia, arguably ...

The scandal is closely linked to the Catholic Church, which under Franco assumed a prominent role in Spain's social services including hospitals, schools and children's homes.

According to the Spanish newspaper La Razón ... states that “jihadism is asking its ‘lone wolves’ to attack our churches. The security of Catholics is in danger. Have we forgotten that ...

The Spanish Church played an important political role in the 1936-1939 civil war, supporting the nationalists led by General Francisco Franco who eventually defeated the strongly anti-clerical ...

Santiago, the Spanish name for St ... coinciding with the last phase of the church’s construction and the town’s cultural and economic peak. (These frescoes shattered conventions in the ...

(photo: Courtesy photo / Diocese of Huelva, Spain) Nicolás de Cárdenas/CNA ... of Pope Francis nor with the pastoral practice of the Church.” The text concludes by stating that “the Diocese ...

But the church wasn't always Gaudí's. The architect that was first commissioned to work on the Sagrada, Francisco de Paula del Villar, was replaced after disagreeing with its promoters.