Tag: Religious issues

ROME -- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a once-powerful Italian prelate who long served as the Vatican’s No. 2 official but whose ...

Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic ...

Early results from the weekend parliament elections in Lebanon show the country's militant Hezbollah group and its allies have apparently ...

HONG KONG -- Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 90-year-old Catholic cleric arrested by Hong Kong police on national security charges, has ...

CAIRO -- For the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the smell of freshly baked orange biscuits and powdered sugar-dusted cookies ...

A Taliban spokesman says a powerful explosion at a Sunni mosque in Kabul has killed at least 10 worshippers and ...

PARIS -- France’s presidential race involves one frontrunner, centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron, and eleven challengers from the far left to ...

Pakistan’s embattled prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament and the opposition said it has the numbers to win ...

Egypt’s president has sworn in the first-ever Coptic Christian to head the country’s highest courtBy BY SAMY MAGDY Associated PressFebruary ...

China has opened an embassy in Nicaragua for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks after President ...