The calamity left 163 people dead, more than 170 others injured, damaged or destroyed nearly 70,000 houses, 290,000 hectares ...

A controversy erupts in Vietnam over 1,000 km of Christmas lights at Saigon's Notre-Dame Cathedral. Critics call it wasteful ...

The Russian embassy in Phnom Penh also issued a statement urging Cambodia and Thailand to halt the fighting and return to the ...

Extrajudicial killings continue, political prisoners numbers increase, and govt critics are silenced, says Church leader ...

New press laws force source disclosure and restrict online speech, drawing strong criticism from rights groups ...

The late Bishop Max Macram Gassis of El-Obeid founded the charity in 1998 to bring food, clean water, clothing, medical ...

A South Korean minister resigned on Dec. 11 after being accused of receiving illegal funds from the Unification Church, a ...

Nuns and volunteers in Incheon provide meals, care, and companionship to isolated elders and marginalized people ...

The next morning Pope Leo met at the Vatican with dozens of members of the Conservatives and Reformists Group of the European ...

Church leaders in India have welcomed a Supreme Court order to reserve 30 percent of seats on state bar councils for women, calling the directive a significant step toward gender equality in the legal ...

Lavoisier Fernandes argues that the Goa nightclub fire, which killed 25, reflects a societal failure where selective morality ...

Sri Lanka has launched a major project to restore hundreds of Buddhist temples, mosques and churches damaged by a recent ...