Catholic Church in Korea is called to confront societal challenges like rapid secularization, individualism, a disconnect in ...

Displaced families among victims in attack on a Rakhine market as clashes intensify between junta, Arakan Army ...

Cambodian civic space is rated as "repressed" by CIVICUS Monitor, and the five Mother Nature activists are now featured in ...

On the occasion of his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon (Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2025), Pope Leo XIV made public, on the Solemnity of Christ the King (Nov. 23, 2025), the apostolic letter In Unitate ...

Blasphemy laws are often misused to target minorities, as well as Muslims, to settle personal enmity or disputes ...

More than a dozen international humanitarian organizations have petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to block an imminent order ...

Sri Lanka has rarely convicted Buddhist monks, but the leader of the BBS, a right-wing Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist group, was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2025 and four years in 2024 for his ...

The long-running strain between SSPX and the Vatican, which St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis sought to address, has left the society in "irregular" canonical status, while ...

Justice Vivek Kumar Singh agreed with the petitioners. He ruled that the Indian Constitution grants adults the personal choice to marry or not, and to enter into a live-in relationship. A consensual ...

The German bishops' conference announced that it has elected Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim as its next president. He will serve as president for a six-year term, succeeding Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

Cambodia has rejected a Thai claim that its soldiers sparked an exchange of fire along their disputed border after a round from a 40mm grenade launcher was fired at them, threatening a fragile ...

Flooding in parts of Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali prompted hundreds of people, including dozens of tourists, to seek safety, a local disaster official said Feb. 24.