Up to 200 Christians were massacred by Islamic extremists in Nigeria's troubled Benue state last Friday evening, according to ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty ... from the church in the predominantly Catholic former ...

Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

In recent decades the U.S. Catholic Church, like many of the nation ... Leo’s background has made him as much an international religious figure as an American one. He has spent much of his ...

Alongside the dirt street in front of a small Catholic chapel ... cellphones taken from the three arrested men. On June 3, Amnesty International encouraged Honduran authorities to ensure that ...

The State Administration Council (SAC) prohibits international aid workers ... for security reasons), explaining how the local Catholic Church provides education while dealing with the constant ...

"And I think that's the start. You know, it's an incomplete project." The Catholic Church maintains that only men can be ordained as priests, viewing this not as a cultural tradition but as ...

The death of Pope Francis has billions wondering who will succeed him – and what direction he will take the Catholic Church ... there's a very complicated international situation which affects ...

The Roman Catholic ... church's 1.4 billion followers across all seven continents. The most globally representative group of cardinals in history will be weighing such factors as geography ...