Finland's prison population continued to grow last year, according to the Prison and Probation Service's 2025 yearbook. It noted that there were an average 3,545 incarcerated people in 2025, which was ...

The number of people who speak Finnish, Swedish and Sámi as their mother tongue has dropped below five million, according to Statistic Finland. The agency noted that preliminary data shows that ...

Several cardinals and bishops in Italy, England and Scotland are among those who have recently praised Leo XIV’s calls for peace after Trump’s criticism. Left: Pope Leo XIV delivers the homily during ...

The apology from Ukraine comes after two drones crashed near the southern Finnish city of Kouvola on Sunday in what the country’s defence ministry said was a "suspected territorial violation". Kyiv ...

Christian Democrat Päivi Räsänen, who was fined €1,800, was supported by conservative US group Alliance Defending Freedom A Finnish member of parliament has been found guilty by the country’s supreme ...

If you think you know what a cardinal looks like, think again. An Ocean County family spotted a rare version of a northern cardinal, turning their daily routine into something pretty special. For Mike ...

Michigan’s remote, northern Keweenaw Peninsula can sometimes feel a bit more Nordic than stereotypically Midwestern. For starters, there’s the landscape: A glaciated terrain littered with colonnades ...

Visit Finland is inviting tourists to apply for a seven-day, all-expenses-paid trip this summer, where you’ll sauna bathe, go for dips in the lakes and head on forest walks in a bid to relax like a ...

VATICAN CITY — The secret conclave that elected Pope Leo head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of the 133 cardinals involved was found carrying a cellphone, a massive security ...

“You can be born Jewish in Finland, get circumcised, married, divorced: it’s a one-stop shop,” Chaya Votkin, president of the Jewish Community of Helsinki, told The Jerusalem Post at the Yael ...

During the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Finnish Catholic, Orthodox and Lutheran shepherds gathered in Rome to meet Leo and share their common Christian witness. Ecumenical prayer in Rome during ...

Created for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics to meet the demand for pre-made drinks, Finland’s Long Drink — or Lonkero — became one of the world’s first ready-to-drink cocktails. Made with gin, grapefruit, ...