A crucial meeting of the India -based Eastern rite Syro Malabar Church’s Synod of Bishops began amid a simmering decades-old ...

Petitioners, who sought to review laws, said they discriminated against people who did not adhere to religion or belief ...

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s ...

Indonesian environmentalists and Catholic activists have slammed a government plan to clear about 20 million hectares of ...

Pope Francis has reiterated his call for peace, urging warring nations to end attacks on civilians. “No more striking civilians! No more striking schools or hospitals! No more striking workplaces!” ...

Up to 300 Afghans arrived in the Philippines on Jan. 6 on temporary stays while being processed for US resettlement, ...

President Prabowo has pledged to provide nutritious meals free to tens of millions of schoolchildren and pregnant women ...

Jesuit Father Myron J. Pereira, based in Mumbai, has spent more than five decades as an academic, journalist, editor and writer of fiction. He contributes regularly to UCA News on religious and ...

South Korea's political leadership was in uncharted territory on Jan. 4 after the sitting president resisted arrest over a ...

The prelate reacted to the alleged joke of the comedian who hosted the countdown of the New Year on TVE -- Laura Yustres ...

De facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met with senior Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican clerics in Damascus on Dec. 31 ...

Pope Francis spoke to members of Archconfraternity of Sts. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist of the Knights of Malta ...