"Miracles do come true." This statement reverberated across the Philippines on Wednesday as Filipinos rejoiced at the news that 30-year-old drug convict Mary Jane Veloso, their countryman facing a firing squad in Indonesia, was given a reprieve by Indonesian President Joko Widodo literally at the ...
Pope Francis flew back to Rome on Monday after completing an epic five-day visit to the Philippines where he made history by drawing nearly 7 million people in his closing Mass amid stormy weather in Manila. It was the "largest event of the history of the Popes," according to Vatican spokesman ...
Speaking frankly, Pope Francis told Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Friday to end corruption in his government and to hear the cries of the poor suffering from "scandalous social inequalities." At the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila during an official welcoming ceremony on the ...
Church bells rang throughout the Philippines as millions of Filipinos joyfully greeted the arrival of Pope Francis on Thursday evening with people from all walks of life lining the streets of Manila while the rest watched the historic event unfold on live television.
Breaking with tradition and at the same time bending Vatican rules, Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals coming from various far-flung corners of the world. It was the second time he made such major appointments in his less than two years at the helm of the Roman Catholic Church.
Exploding verbal fireworks on New Year's Eve, Pope Francis vigorously denounced corruption in Rome, disclosing a "mafia-like" organization within the halls of the city government.
Jennifer Lawrence, the actress who plays the role of the bow-and-arrow-wielding heroine Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" trilogy, has hit the box office bull's-eye. Lawrence, 24, tops the list of the highest-grossing actors at the box office in 2014, according to Forbes.
Thanks to the power of meditation, tranquility has come to the schools located in one of the poorest and violence-wracked neighborhoods of San Francisco, California.
Facebook wanted to please its users; instead it terribly annoyed some of them. When it rolled out its annual "Year in Review" feature recently, Facebook thought it would delight its users by having a photo slideshow of their "best" moments in 2014 with just one click of their mouse. But instead of getting "likes," the special feature turned off a number of users.
North Korea has called the film an "act of war." But to the millions of moviegoers who watched "The Interview" in more than 300 movie theaters all over the United States on Christmas Day, it was just a funny movie.
In his Christmas Day message on Thursday, Pope Francis directly called on God to ease the suffering of Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria who are suffering from a "brutal persecution" by Islamic State insurgents.
National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School may continue pursuing plans to become the nation’s first religious charter school while its legal challenge to an Oklahoma law moves forward, a federal judge ruled. According to Baptist Press, the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation is challenging provisions of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act that bar religious organizations from operating publicly funded charter schools because of their religious character.
Former President Joe Biden received an award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware on Thursday and used his remarks to defend his abortion-rights record while encouraging supporters to continue their efforts. Biden spoke at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, where former first lady Jill Biden presented him with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators called on President Donald Trump to raise China’s persecution of Christian pastors and other religious minorities during his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week. Led by Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., the lawmakers thanked Trump for diplomatic pressure they said helped secure the July 3 release of Beijing Zion Church founder Ezra Jin after 266 days in detention.
Asbury Theological Seminary plans to leave the federal student loan program and stop processing Title IV loans beginning in May 2027. Title IV governs federal student aid under the Higher Education Act. The Kentucky seminary said the move reflects a desire to reduce student debt and concerns that a future administration hostile to its beliefs could use federal funding as leverage against the school.
Algerian special forces raided a Christian worship gathering at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, detaining all 12 people present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized non-Muslim religious service. Police entered the site and transferred the 12 detained Christians to the Bethioua police station.