The French martyrs declared Friday died between 1944 and 1945, many after being arrested by the Nazi regime for their ...

When one side of the Spanish Civil War asked the world for help, a small band of Australian men and women answered the call.

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...

An estimated 100,000 people were executed by Franco’s supporters during and after the Civil War, and buried in more than 2,000 mass graves scattered across the country. Image ...

Spanish media reports that the ministry of culture is drafting a law that will expel monks. But that task will not be easy. The 21 monks do not wish to leave their monastery.

He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

Spain exhumed on Thursday the body of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 at the start of the Spanish civil war.

COLMENAR VIEJO, Spain, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Benita Navacerrada is a 91-year-old Spanish woman with a yearning to know where her father was buried more than 80 years ago. She hopes the answer will ...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105. She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...