David Ryan, an Irish survivor whose tragic story of the abuse he and his brother suffered was the subject of a 2022 documentary, was overcome with emotion after meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the ...

Church leaders welcome notices to Modi govt, 12 states after laws accused of targeting clergy, minorities are challenged ...

The gunman convicted of shooting dead former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has appealed his life sentence, his lawyer said on Feb. 4. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was found guilty two weeks ago ...

Religious minorities in India — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis — comprise nearly one-fifth of the ...

Restoration is set to begin at the grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time in 600 years.

Case highlights how restrictive and hostile China has become toward independent reporting, says Reporters Without Borders ...

While the global Church grapples with a staggering decline in vocations, the Church in Vietnam faces a distinct challenge: ...

The Chinese-backed crackdown on organized crime has gathered pace in recent weeks amid increased cross-border intelligence sharing and following its inclusion as a key plank in the Dec. 27 peace deal ...

Sunday services disrupted on Feb. 1 amid coordinated attacks by separatist militants across Balochistan province ...

The top court in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India has ruled that Christians do not require government permission to hold prayer meetings on their private property, clarifying a long-disputed ...

Interpol issued a red notice for the arrest of one of Indonesia's biggest oil tycoons over a $17 billion corruption scandal, ...

Another former Chinese justice minister, Fu Zhenghua, was convicted of corruption in 2022. He received a death sentence with ...