The world’s oldest army has new uniforms. But don’t worry: The Swiss Guards’ famed blue ... but the barracks’ cramped housing has long been cited as one of the reasons why women couldn’t be admitted.

As the late Pope Francis greeted thousands of guests in Vatican City on Easter Sunday, the Swiss Guard was not far, watching over the pontiff as it has done for more than 500 years. At the age of 88, ...

GENEVA, June 14 (Reuters) - Like many women across Switzerland on Wednesday, women's rights activist Françoise Nyffeler joined a crowd of demonstrators and screamed at the top of her lungs in unison ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The world’s oldest army has new uniforms. But don’t worry: The Swiss Guards’ famed blue, yellow and red Renaissance-style billowy garb isn’t going anywhere. Rather, the pope’s army ...