Mickens arrived in Rome in 1986 to study theology at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University. And he has remained in the Eternal City ever since. His voice, shaped by decades in Rome, ...

Pope Leo XIV's first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te, is a powerful call for solidarity with the poor, posing a direct ...

Christian leaders in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua region have condemned a military operation that left at least 15 ...

Following a report by rights group LICADHO revealing 146 deaths in six years, activists are calling on Cambodia to reform its ...

Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death on the island of Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of trafficking cocaine ...

Fewer than half of South Koreans now support unification with the North, according to a recent survey, marking the first time backing for a united peninsula has dropped below a majority and ...

Amid a new and more dangerous arms race -- and the deterioration of international dialogue -- the Vatican's top diplomat to the United Nations has called for a "fundamental change in perspective" to ...

Abdullah al-Derazi was convicted of terrorism along with eight others for taking part in the anti-government protests in 2011 ...

The body of Bipin Joshi, a Nepali student held hostage by Hamas since 2023, has been returned to Kathmandu and honored as a ...

Meeting with visitors from different countries who were in Rome for the Oct. 19 canonization of seven new saints, Pope Leo said, "the men and women we proclaimed saints yesterday are shining signs of ...

Along Cambodia’s frontline, talk of peace is welcomed but still a distant cry for thousands of women and children housed in dilapidated camps and the soldiers who are holding the line amid a tense ...

Rights groups have criticized Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar for accusing the media of exaggerating reports of sexual abuse in Islamic boarding schools, saying his remarks ...