Civil society alliance says attacks, prosecutions and surveillance targeting activists have intensified during his 2-year ...
The fires have triggered a pollution spell, forcing closure of schools, fuelled a surge in respiratory conditions both among ...
Mahmoud Abou Nusair, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who lost his right leg during the war in Gaza, sits for an interview at a ...
Thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on Sunday cheered loudly when the pope waved from the window of his apartment ...
One hundred years after Pope Pius XI established World Mission Day, Pope Leo’s quietest line may be the most important ...
Moscow and Tokyo have been locked in a territorial dispute for decades over the status of a string of islands in the Pacific Ocean ...
Mission San Francisco de Asís, the city’s oldest building and the chain’s oldest intact chapel, marks 250 years since its ...
A decade on, “Amoris Laetitia” still challenges the Church to listen to families before passing judgment and to understand ...
With the population shrinking by more than 900,000 a year, Japan has no choice but to rely on foreign workers, even as ...
Days after lung cancer surgery, the pope telephoned Putin to press for a ceasefire and aid for civilians trapped and starving ...
Malaysia has been a key labor market for Bangladesh, an impoverished South Asian nation, since 1992. Various forms of ...
Indonesian civil society groups and human rights defenders have welcomed a Constitutional Court ruling requiring changes to ...