Rhode Island is the first U.S. state to offer a license plate featuring the Portuguese coat of arms. The plates benefit the RI Day of Portugal organization and celebrate Portuguese heritage.

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat of arms – a long-held tradition for those in the ranks of bishops, cardinals and popes. The choice of symbols and words reflects the person’s ...

In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the identifying symbol of Augustine, a heart pierced by an arrow.

The Vatican released the Bishop of Rome’s official coat of arms on Saturday. It depicts an upper portion marked with a fleur-de-lis and a lower half decorated with a burning heart, pierced by an ...

Vatican City, May 10, 2025 / 10:30 am. The Vatican unveiled Pope Leo XIV’s official portrait and signature Saturday, revealing the American pontiff’s embrace of traditional papal elements just ...

The heraldic design of Leo’s papal coat of arms features a fleur-de-lis on a blue background, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, while the right side displays the Sacred Heart of Jesus resting on a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Zimbabwe's regime got a taste of the international isolation critics say it deserves. Its neighbors united to block a shipment of Chinese arms to prevent them ...

But the bloc will maintain an embargo on arms and equipment that could be used for internal repression until February 2026, the Council of the European Union said in a statement.“The EU continues to ...

Xisca Mora, the mayor of the Mallorcan town of Porreres in Spain, is reportedly considering suing Meghan Markle for seemingly plagiarizing a coat of arms for the Duchess of Sussex's As Ever logo.

A royal coat of arms is the king’s personal coat of arms and, at the same time, a state symbol. For the past several hundred years it has not changed much. It has featured a polar bear and a ram.