Religion / Belief

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned call for humanitarian corridors to help refugees...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide and based in Istanbul,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a trip to Florence this Sunday and Ash Wednesday services...

By Pilar Olivares PRUDENTOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 12,000 kilometers (7,450 miles) away from the violence of the Russian...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican, in its first comment on Russia's invasion of Ukraine that began on...

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday sanctioned a sprawling international network run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) - French lawyer Sarah Asmeta wears a hijab at work but that means she is...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the threat of war in Ukraine caused "great...

By Emma Pinedo and Christina Thykjaer MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Catholic Church sought to give more credence to an investigation...

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia held celebrations on Tuesday to commemorate for the first time its...

By Agustin Geist BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The trial of a Roman Catholic bishop accused of sexually abusing young men in...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire,...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican symposium on the priesthood, including discussions on sexual abuse, was embarrassed...

By Krishna N. Das and Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) - A series of religious laws promoted by India's ruling...

By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian court on Friday sentenced 38 Muslim men to death and ordered...

By Monica Machicao EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - A Bolivian miner has covered his house with sculptures of long-horned devils...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish prosecutors are investigating 68 cases of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Catholic church staff, the...

By Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) -Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Constitutional Court on Tuesday turned down a request to hold a national referendum on the right...