. . SYDNEY – Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said...
. . MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a tirade at priests and bishops critical of his crackdown on illegal drugs, accusing them of...
. . CAIRO – A bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 49 during Sunday mass,...
. . HAVANNA – Fidel Castro’s who ruled for nearly five decades and split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution...
. . UNITED NATIONS – Philippines Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay told the United Nations on Saturday his country’s new president, Rodrigo Duterte, had an “unprecedented” mandate...
. . AMATRICE – A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, with reports that as many as...
. . MANILA – The Philippines’ firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked a fresh diplomatic row with his colourful language, calling the US ambassador in...
. . SAINTE-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY – Two militant attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an...
. . MANILA – President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he would aggressively promote artificial birth control in the country even at the risk of getting in...
. . RIYADH – For the first time ever Saudi Arabian women are allowed to participate in municipal elections in the deeply conservative Islamic kingdom of...
. . MANILA – The country’s biggest coalition of labor unions and federations on Monday assailed the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for its...
. . NEW YORK – Each year, Forbes magazine releases its ranking of the world’s most powerful people—and it just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin....
. . VATICAN CITY – The Vatican announced new procedures on Tuesday to make it easier for Roman Catholics to obtain marriage annulments, a change intended...
. . ROME – Former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who would have been the first high-level prelate to stand before a Vatican tribunal on charges of child...
NEW YORK – Michael Hoebel, an American pilot has joined the latest series of claims by individuals to have found the untraceable wreckage of the...
NAKHON RATCHASIMA – A group of missionary sisters is bringing humanitarian assistance to the scavengers who live in the rubbish dump of the Thai city of Lopburi....
BANGKOK – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has said that Thailand will help the United Nations and the United States with any investigation into the findings...
BANGKOK – About 100,000 anti-government protesters gathered in Thailand’s capital on Sunday, as simmering tensions between Bangkok’s middle classes and the mostly rural supporters...
BANGKOK — For years, Riddick Bowe dreamed of getting back into the ring – just not this ring and this sport, in this country. Next week...
CEBU – A 66-year-old Canadian John Pope opened fire inside a courtroom in the central Philippine province of Cebu on Tuesday, killing a doctor and a...