During this season of prayer, fasting, sacrifice, renewal, and celebration, let us together, in our diverse ways, work to build a better, freer, more peaceful, and more hopeful world.

Mainland Chinese visitors to Japan tumbled 60.7 percent in January year-on-year, figures showed Feb 18, in the continued ...

People watch as Buddhist monks arrive at the Kelaniya temple in Kelaniya on June 10, 2025, during the Poson Poya (full moon) ...

For Leo XIV, Lent functions as a lens trained on the present, and its message should go beyond ecclesial boundaries ...

Luot Sophal, a journalist with Srotop Yuvakvey News, was arrested on Feb. 13 and charged with demoralizing Cambodia’s armed forces and incitement to commit a felony under Articles 472, 494 and 495 of ...

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate with a call ...

Catholic faithful offer prayers during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Mary's Basilica in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad in India on Feb. 14, 2024. Christians have faced a series of ...

A Catholic priest serving as a school principal was assaulted by parents and later arrested by police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, after molestation complaints were made against him ...

Human life is sacred and no one should ever be abandoned,” Virginia bishops say as assisted suicide bill fails ...

A South Korean court will rule Feb.19 on insurrection charges against ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, weighing whether he should be sentenced to death for his failed bid to impose military rule. Yoon ...

Lacking heat due to Russia's targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy system, Ukrainians must survive as temperatures plunge to -9 degrees Fahrenheit (-23 degrees Celsius), he said, while "over our heads, ...

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi thanks Sister Maria Fransiska Imakulata for aiding trafficking victims rescued in East Nusa ...