Meghalaya High Court on Jan. 28 issued notices to the priests – Saji Stephen, Arcadius Puwein, Edmund Gomes, Dianetius Fernandez and Cyril Tirkey – asking them to explain “why they should not be ...

By engaging more openly with Japanese society — offering crisis intervention programs, mental health counseling, and safe ...

Sri Lankan paddy farmers have been protesting to demand guaranteed crop prices and protection of their livelihood amid ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Jan. 30. Iwao ...

Both have been suspended from ministerial duties, San Carlos prelate says following protection claim from US-based watchdog ...

In his main address, the pope spoke about St. Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary and foster father of Jesus, as part of his ...

Porfirije condemns violence against protesters, calling for justice and a return to Christian values amidst ongoing unrest ...

Experts hail Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone for being first 'on Italian state soil to present a report of this kind' ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Jan. 29 said humanitarian aid should not be politicized, saying around 30 ...

A women's football match was canceled in Bangladesh on Jan. 29 after protests by Islamist hardliners forced organizers to call off the fixture, the second such incident in as many days.

There is a category of rhetoric technically known by the Greek word parrhesia, usually defined in English as “speaking truth ...

A Catholic in Indonesia’s Christian-dominated East Nusa Tenggara province has been accused of blasphemy after he criticized a ...