The gunman convicted of shooting dead former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has appealed his life sentence, his lawyer said on Feb. 4. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was found guilty two weeks ago ...

Church leaders welcome notices to Modi govt, 12 states after laws accused of targeting clergy, minorities are challenged ...

Religious minorities in India — Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis — comprise nearly one-fifth of the ...

Case highlights how restrictive and hostile China has become toward independent reporting, says Reporters Without Borders ...

Interpol issued a red notice for the arrest of one of Indonesia's biggest oil tycoons over a $17 billion corruption scandal, ...

While the global Church grapples with a staggering decline in vocations, the Church in Vietnam faces a distinct challenge: ...

The executive director of the Illinois bishops' conference and an Illinois pro-life leader have decried the state's call for ...

After the darkened basilica was filled with light, Pope Leo, who joined the Order of St. Augustine as a young man and served as a missionary in Peru for decades, reflected on the mission of religious ...

The Chinese-backed crackdown on organized crime has gathered pace in recent weeks amid increased cross-border intelligence sharing and following its inclusion as a key plank in the Dec. 27 peace deal ...

Sunday services disrupted on Feb. 1 amid coordinated attacks by separatist militants across Balochistan province ...

The top court in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India has ruled that Christians do not require government permission to hold prayer meetings on their private property, clarifying a long-disputed ...

As things stand, partly due to the clericalist mindset of many Filipino Catholics, bishops are actually well taken care of by ...