Controversy over women's ordination, even at the synod, detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church ...

More than 100 elephants in northern Thailand have been moved to higher ground to escape rapidly rising flood waters, local ...

The interior ministry filed an affidavit stating marital rape be treated more leniently than rape committed outside marriage ...

The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, ordered a reorganization of the diocese's geographical divisions -- a series of "sectors ...

As the Jewish community celebrates Rosh Hashanah amid the Israel-Hamas war and rising antisemitism around the world, two New ...

Millions of dollars for military training is unnecessary while education quality drops due to budget cuts, critics say ...

Calls US body 'biased with a political agenda' after it said India should get ‘Country of Particular Concern’ status ...

Religious hardliners target Sufi shrines, minorities and culturally important places in Muslim-majority Bangladesh following ...

There is a widespread sense in the U.S. that American politics is broken. Perhaps there is no greater indicator of that than ...