Pope Francis has called confessors participating in an annual course in the Vatican “ministers of mercy” and urged them to ...

The state’s chief minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on March 26, directed police to conduct a detailed inquiry into the death ...

A strong earthquake measuring 7.7 struck the Mandalay-Sagaing region of southwest Myanmar on March 28, causing multi-story ...

The president of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly the Unification Church, has condemned a ...

Turkey's democracy is dying,' warns Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk amid protests, mass arrests, and press crackdowns ...

Christian minorities fear rising tensions after opposition leader's arrest, as political and economic hardships deepen ...

Indonesian police fired water cannons on March 27 to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital Jakarta angry at a newly ...

Stepping out of papal regalia, Vatican opulence and distance from the faithful, and pompous titular leadership, he has lived ...

At least 30 people are expected to join the Catholic Church during the upcoming Easter Vigil in a parish in China's Beijing ...

Most believers consider abstinence and fasting as helpful to their faith and as acts similar to prayer, survey finds ...

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been known for his tirades against the Catholic Church. He characterized it ...

Church authorities, their advisers, neither convinced nor satisfied with proposed Heritage Interpretation Center ...