Cardinal Baltazar Porras has been denied permission to leave Venezuela and had his passport confiscated as the country's ...

Thailand's Prime Minister dissolved parliament on Dec. 12 after three months in office, a royal decree showed, paving the way for general elections early next year. The move comes earlier than ...

A controversy erupts in Vietnam over 1,000 km of Christmas lights at Saigon's Notre-Dame Cathedral. Critics call it wasteful ...

The Russian embassy in Phnom Penh also issued a statement urging Cambodia and Thailand to halt the fighting and return to the ...

The calamity left 163 people dead, more than 170 others injured, damaged or destroyed nearly 70,000 houses, 290,000 hectares ...

Nuns and volunteers in Incheon provide meals, care, and companionship to isolated elders and marginalized people ...

Church leaders in India have welcomed a Supreme Court order to reserve 30 percent of seats on state bar councils for women, calling the directive a significant step toward gender equality in the legal ...

Extrajudicial killings continue, political prisoners numbers increase, and govt critics are silenced, says Church leader ...

New press laws force source disclosure and restrict online speech, drawing strong criticism from rights groups ...

A South Korean minister resigned on Dec. 11 after being accused of receiving illegal funds from the Unification Church, a ...

The late Bishop Max Macram Gassis of El-Obeid founded the charity in 1998 to bring food, clean water, clothing, medical ...

The next morning Pope Leo met at the Vatican with dozens of members of the Conservatives and Reformists Group of the European ...