Faith leaders, academics, and rights activists have expressed concern over legislation and restrictions in Japan against religious entities following former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, ...
Up to 300 Afghans arrived in the Philippines on Jan. 6 on temporary stays while being processed for US resettlement, Philippine and US officials said. The Philippines and the United States signed an ...
Myanmar cardinal Charles Maung Bo has called for an immediate end to violence in the war-torn nation in the New Year by prioritizing civilian lives and working for reconciliation. “The cycle of ...
Two people in India set themselves on fire Jan. 3 to protest against the disposal of hazardous waste from the decades-old Bhopal industrial disaster, local government officials said. Images on social ...
African women face a number of challenges in the context of development. These include the weight of certain traditions, which can sometimes hinder social and economic equality. In many African ...
Indonesia launched an ambitious $4.3 billion free-meal program on Jan. 6 to combat stunted growth due to malnutrition, a key election promise of President Prabowo Subianto. Prabowo has pledged to ...
Our own age isn’t religious in the same way that the medieval centuries were. Medieval man was passionately and publicly faithful to his beliefs, but was a rabid bigot where the beliefs of others were ...
A month after the flood waters receded, Shankar Hunda began cutting down the brittle brown cotton crop left on his farm in Somar Jat, a village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. His wife Dewi ...
Although Christian leaders in Syria are trying to stay positive about the new Islamist interim government in Damascus, others are pointing to worrying concerns about what lies ahead for the country's ...
A magistrate court in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo remanded social activist Namal Kumara for 14 days on Dec. 2, a day after he was arrested for insulting the nation’s only Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith.
Cardinal Stephen Chow of Hong Kong has stressed the need to stop wasting food, saying it aligns with respecting human rights and caring for God’s creation. The Jesuit cardinal wrote an article on the ...
More than 400 Christian leaders, including activists, lawyers and scholars, have urged India’s president and prime minister to take immediate action to address what they said was increased persecution ...