Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have urged the British government to help protect the ancient Buddhist relics that descendants of ...

Rights activists and legal experts criticized a ruling from the Pakistan Supreme Court that allows military trials for ...

Crowds in St Peter's Square applaud but also sigh at the result, which came after the second and third ballots ...

Electoral violence is deeply embedded in Philippine democratic history. It was furthered during the time of former president, ...

Yon Seng Yeath, the highest representative of Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Nun Nget, the Great Supreme Patriarch ...

The precedent for a pope choosing a new name was set 2,000 years ago by the first pope, Peter, who was born Simon ...

Washington legislation will make members of the clergy mandatory reporters of any instances of child abuse or neglect ...

However, along the immense walls surrounding the Vatican, it was business as usual on May 7 as hundreds of tourists joined ...

That the Church should opt for the poor is particularly relevant in Asia, where millions suffer extreme poverty ...

Yoshitaka Toda, 43, was arrested at Todai-mae Station in the Japanese capital on suspicion of assaulting a man, police said ...

Thick black smoke emerged on May 7 from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a new ...

Host of the "Bible in a Year" and "Catechism in a Year" podcasts and a frequent presenter for Ascension, Father Mike Schmitz ...