ASIA - PACIFIC

Less than 30 percent of people in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam say women have an obligation...

Anti-regime forces have captured key towns in eastern Myanmar on the Thai border where the Karen National Union (KNU) has...

Four environmentalists who spent more than five years in prison after being convicted of spying will be freed following a...

Thousands gathered on April 7 in front of Israel's parliament to demand the return of the hostages abducted by Hamas...

In a recent incident that has sparked considerable debate and criticism within Japan, Governor Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka Prefecture announced...

ROME – After a massive earthquake shook Taiwan this week, leaving at least 10 people dead, the island’s Ambassador to...

A new report shows the overall number of parishes in several U.S. dioceses has declined during the past 50 years,...

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has reaffirmed the requirement that every diocese, Catholic religious order and institution...

With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul on April 5,...

The wounds of Christ's passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries are reminders of...