Pope Francis opened the second session of the Synod of Bishops defending his decision to give women and laymen votes at the ...

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines has called for a show of solidarity towards more than 210,000 people who were affected ...

Cardinal Parolin emphasized peace and human dignity, urging commitment to justice and solidarity aligned with UN goals ...

Japan's new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be "inappropriate" despite the ...

Thousands of pilgrims from across the country gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in ...

Four villagers and a journalist were beaten up and arrested at a protest against geothermal project on Flores island ...

Two Hindu youths have been released a week after their kidnapping, allegedly by rival tribal Christians in strife-torn ...

S. Iswaran received a 12-month sentence for obstruction of justice, accepting illegal gifts in first political graft trial in ...

“All Cambodians should be able to exercise their right to freedom of expression without the fear of arrest and prosecution,” ...

We still have 3,000 to 4,000 Christian families living just on the border with Israel in the middle of the war, and they ...

There are 25,000 Druze in the Golan Heights, divided into four villages, and until recently, they had remained on the ...

The indefinite curfew came after a Bengali Muslim Abul Hasnat Mohammad Sohel Rana, an instructor of state-run Khagrachhari ...