ROME (AP) — They don’t have a vote in the election of a pope, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders ...

A French police commander has detailed 58 hours of drama, terror and finally relief that marked the latest kidnapping of ...

India and Pakistan are scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in ...

Sculptures of two giant eagles from the “Lord of the Rings” films will be removed from New Zealand's Wellington Airport this ...

Trump has railed against value-added tax as a burden to U.S. companies, although economists say this kind of tax is ...

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez helps tend to his small Tsotsil Catholic community in Mexico. He was ordained a deacon in 2022, ...

Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

Iran’s foreign minister is in Pakistan to try and mediate in the escalation between Islamabad and New Delhi after last ...

A Cambodian court has convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than ...

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been ...