The Dalit (former untouchable), Adivasi or indigenous, and other marginalized Christians of all denominations in regions ...

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

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

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

Anna Yoo Hye-sook becomes the first laywoman to lead the Korean Bishops' evangelization office. Discover her vision for synodality, human dignity, and addressing secularization in the South Korean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has revealed that he considered joining the Salesians as a boy before ultimately discerning a vocation with the Augustinian order, joking that the congregation of Don Bosco "came in ...