Myanmar's junta carried out fresh air strikes on an opposition-held town on Sept. 27, hours after issuing an unprecedented ...

The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need warned the West African nation 'has become epicenter of terrorist violence' ...

The focus of Pope Francis' visit to Belgium was to help celebrate a Catholic research university's 600th anniversary ...

The pope thanked them for their courage in coming forward and expressed his feelings of shame for what they experienced ...

Shiite and Sunni tribes in northwestern Pakistan reached a truce on Sept. 27 after a week of fighting that left 37 people ...

This year we celebrate the memory of the Stigmata and the Canticle of Brother Sun; the year 2026 is the centenary of the death of St. Francis.

Many Jews in Israel feel that in the midst of a war for their survival, it is essential that the ultra-Orthodox share in the ...

Sri Lankans elected left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their 10th president last Saturday. The election of 55 year old Dissanayake marked the end of the dynastic political culture that ...

Most Catholics in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and U.S. hold favorable view of Pope Francis, says Pew ...

Pope Francis urged the Catholic Church to prevent future incidents, calling it a 'disgrace' comparable to Herod's massacre ...

Five people were arrested in India for the killing of a seven-year-old boy in an alleged ritual sacrifice aimed at bringing ...

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, during a celebratory Holy Mass on the anniversary of Saint Meskenta’s martyrdom, at the Saint Hannah Monastery for Chaldean ...