Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have urged the British government to help protect the ancient Buddhist relics that descendants of ...

Electoral violence is deeply embedded in Philippine democratic history. It was furthered during the time of former president, ...

Rights activists and legal experts criticized a ruling from the Pakistan Supreme Court that allows military trials for ...

Crowds in St Peter's Square applaud but also sigh at the result, which came after the second and third ballots ...

Yon Seng Yeath, the highest representative of Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Nun Nget, the Great Supreme Patriarch ...

Jailed Vietnamese land rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong is facing a new criminal charge of spreading anti-state propaganda for allegedly denouncing communism, says a report quoting his wife.

Some 87 international human rights and diaspora groups have told the Hong Kong government to immediately cease the arrests of family members of activists who fled the Chinese enclave amid a crackdown ...

The precedent for a pope choosing a new name was set 2,000 years ago by the first pope, Peter, who was born Simon ...

Host of the "Bible in a Year" and "Catechism in a Year" podcasts and a frequent presenter for Ascension, Father Mike Schmitz ...

Washington legislation will make members of the clergy mandatory reporters of any instances of child abuse or neglect ...

Cardinal Oswald Gracias of India, considered a member of Pope Francis' inner circle, offered OSV News a candid and deeply ...

However, along the immense walls surrounding the Vatican, it was business as usual on May 7 as hundreds of tourists joined ...