Despite recent and repeated terrorist attacks against Egypt's minority Christian communities, Pope Francis will not cancel his visit to Egypt.

Women wailed as caskets marked with the word "martyr" were brought into the St. Mina monastery in Alexandria.

Pope Francis asked God "to convert the hearts of those who spread terror, violence and death, and also the hearts of those who make, and traffic in, weapons."

“We need to have a national debate on these things; it’s not a decision for the president to make in the dead of night.”

The strikes hit the government-controlled Shayrat air base in central Syria, where U.S. officials say the Syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off.

If the referendum is approved, Turkey’s parliamentary system would be scrapped in favor of an executive presidency.