Japan moves to make childbirth entirely free by 2028, transitioning from a lump-sum allowance to full public health insurance ...

The two sides have conflicted for months, with Islamabad accusing its neighbour of harbouring Islamist extremists ...

Rescuing children and reshaping their lives is no easy task, as our correspondent discovers on Thai-Myanmar border ...

An estimated 2,500 new Catholics, both adults and infants, are expected to join the Church in Hong Kong ahead of Easter, ...

Catholic leaders, including nuns in India, have welcomed a Supreme Court decision to dismiss a petition seeking compulsory ...

Organizers of the 2027 Seoul World Youth Day (WYD) have inaugurated a new committee by appointing 57 South Korean Catholic ...

Christian groups demand probe, apology after security forces enter Baptist church and pastor’s home in Nagaland ...

This picture taken on July 16, 2023, shows a woman passing by a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied by a ...

A documentary about a Claretian missionary priest kidnapped and murdered by Muslim extremists in the Philippines is slated ...

Catholic bishops primarily, but not only, from the Global South, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Oceania, have collectively issued a momentous document on peace with ...

People take part in a protest march against the ethnic violence in India's northeastern state of Manipur, in Ahmedabad on July 23, 2023. Maharashtra became the latest of 13 states to pass a stringent ...

The Indian government has rejected a US agency’s report seeking “targeted sanctions” on its prime intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), and the umbrella body of Hindu organizations, ...