Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity.

The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a high court order summoning senior state officials and directing them to take possession of six churches of the Jacobite Syrian Church faction and hand it over ...

It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring ...

Fourteen members of a small religious sect in Australia have been found guilty of the manslaughter of an 8-year-old girl, who ...

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the ...

Over 30 Poor Clare nuns were forcibly removed from three Nicaraguan convents under Ortega's government orders.

U.S. evangelicals opting to use warehouse church buildings and identify as “nondenominational” has prompted some Christians ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

Another exchange of hostages held by Hamas and other militants in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails is ...

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering, making ...

Large shares in many middle-income countries say following the historically predominant religion is key to "true" national ...

We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion's role in society, government and national identity.