Nigerian officials announced Monday that the remaining 130 students and staff abducted from a Catholic school in the country s north have been freed, ending a harrowing month-long captivity and
The change, enacted in legislation signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July, reflects both Ukrainians' dismay with the 22-month-old Russian invasion and their assertion of a national identity.
Vatican officials said about 70,000 people filled St. Peter's Square for Francis' noonday speech and blessing. They included many people flying Palestinian flags, as well as some Ukrainian ones.
King Charles used his traditional Christmas Day speech to encourage the nation to care for creation and serve others.
In his Christmas message, Pope Francis expressed deep concern over the loss of innocent civilian lives resulting from Israel's bombardment of Gaza.
Two evangelists in eastern Uganda will spend Christmas in jail, charged under a blasphemy law after Muslims upset by their street preaching beat them and summoned police, sources said
Egyptian sources told Reuters news service on Monday that leaders from the Gaza-based terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad turned down a plan to remove their control of the Gaza Strip in exchange ...
Associates of the Russian opposition leader said on Monday that they discovered him in a prison colony above the Arctic Circle, near the town of Kharp, roughly 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow. They ha...
Four months following the attacks on dozens of churches and Christian homes by Muslim mobs in Pakistan, the Christian minority fervently and enthusiastically celebrated Christmas Across the country, ...
Traditionally, Orthodox Christians in Ukraine have celebrated on January 7, in keeping with the Julian calendar that most branches of the Orthodox Church use to determine fixed-day religious celebrations. The decision to switch dates for Christmas and other holidays is one more way to assert Ukraine's cultural and political independence from Russia since Moscow's troops invaded the country in February 2022.
Months of war between Israel and Gaza are taking a "terrible" toll on the entire region, with devastating consequences for people in the West Bank and Bethlehem who rely on tourism.
