India, on March 30, declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the ...

Catholics in Chicago have expressed sympathy and sorrow over the death of a Loyola University Chicago student who was shot ...

Archbishop Paolo Rudelli has been named the Vatican's new substitute secretary of state, effectively becoming the papal chief of staff ...

The Spanish government and the Catholic Church signed an agreement on March 30 to compensate victims of sexual abuse by clergy in cases that can no longer be pursued through the courts. The deal for ...

Hundreds of Nepalis on March 29 demanded the release of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli, arrested for his alleged role in a deadly crackdown on 2025 protests that ousted him. Oli, 74, and ex-home ...

Transgender rights activists in India have expressed outrage after the government amended a key protection law, redefining who should be recognized as transgender for legal rights and benefits.

Whatever one believes about the politics of that war, the collision of its violence with one of Islam’s most sacred seasons creates a wound that goes beyond the physical. It feels like a message, even ...

An Indian court has sentenced two Hindu men to two years' imprisonment for the destruction of a century-old statue of Jesus Christ at a British-era Catholic church in Ambala in th ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was stopped from accessing the church on Palm Sunday despite travelling privately ...

As she prepares to be baptised during this Easter Vigil at St Anne’s Minor Basilica in Penang diocese, the 35-year-old woman recalled how the journey began in 2015, when she decided to improve her ...

Jerusalem church leaders issue a joint statement decrying the escalating war with Iran. Read their plea for an immediate ceasefire, regional de-escalation, and the protection of all civilians in the ...

Authorities enhancing Orwellian surveillance state, crushing whatever space for independent thought may remain ...