As the pope himself noted, there is always the danger of reducing popular piety to external rituals and superstition ...

The five Spanish Franciscans were killed in 1597 after telling a Guale chiefdom heir that he cannot take a second wife ...

Rallies by major national teachers' association, youth groups precede protests in Manila against vice president ...

In the latest case on Jan. 24, about 100 hardliners attacked three Sufi shrines in Narshingdi district in central Bangladesh, ...

The family of a mentally challenged Christian youth is worried for his life after he was jailed on alleged blasphemy charges ...

Authorities in central Indian Madhya Pradesh state have ordered four schools, two of them Church-managed, to return to ...

Police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh arrested seven Christians in two separate cases following attacks by Hindu ...

With leadership changes within the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations, there is an opportunity for reflection ...

Christian and Muslim leaders have expressed dismay after the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand adopted a common civil code ...

Heads of state gathered on Jan. 27 to mark liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland ...

Francis met presidents of bishops' communications committees and the directors of communications for bishops' conferences ...

A firebrand Hindu nun accused of helping incite a mob that demolished a centuries-old mosque has been granted a top Indian ...