Russian officials and Orthodox priests unveils a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide

As part of a New Year's ritual the Cuban babalawos priests of the Afro Cuban syncretic belief santeria predict an increase in the number of natural disasters in 2018

Chilean victims of sexual abuse by priest Fernando Karadima on Thursday rejected Pope Francis defense of a bishop accused of covering the pedophile priest's crimes as the pontiff wrapped up a trip to the country

Thousands of Catholics queue on Ash Wednesday for seminarians and priests to apply ash to their foreheads marking the start of the 40 day Lent a period that Catholics around the world observe leading up to Easter Sunday

En un pais predominantemente catolico y con altas tasas de violencia como Mexico los sacerdotes cumplen un dificil papel: atender a victimas y victimarios del crimen organizado

The Vatican's top investigator Archbishop Charles Scicluna who prosecuted cases involving predator priests for the Vatican's doctrinal body from 2002 to 2012 is in Chile to begin a probe into Bishop Juan Barros who is accused of covering...

Lay Catholics and priests of the diocese of Osorno who have been protesting for three years against their bishop Juan Barros accused of covering up child sex abuses by convicted priest Fernando Karadima say they have been finally...

An uneasy relationship exists between priests and drug traffickers in heavily Catholic Mexico where some Church officials say they have no choice but to engage with the powerful cartels that have de facto control over regions where they...

Egyptian archaeologists on Saturday unveiled the tomb of an Old Kingdom priestess adorned with well preserved and rare wall paintings

Egyptian archaeologists on Saturday unveiled the tomb of an Old Kingdom priestess adorned with well preserved and rare wall paintings

Carlos Aguilar fue nombrado el lunes como el nuevo arzobispo primado de Mexico remplazando al cardenal Norberto Rivera acusado de encubrir crimenes de pedofilia de otros sacerdotes

Exestudiantes que acusan a sacerdotes de haber cometido abusos sexuales de los que fueron victimas en un Colegio de la Congregacion Marista en Chile cuestionaron la investigacion canonica del caso que comenzo el viernes con la...

Mourners in Mexico carry the coffin of priest Ivan Anorve the day after he was killed along with a fellow vicar and a primary school teacher during an ambush by an armed commando in the violent state of Guerrero

Los deudos en Guerrero un violento estado al sur de Mexico se despedian el martes de un sacerdote asesinado el lunes durante la emboscada de un comando armado

Italian priests go to the polls on Sunday in Rome to take part in the country's most uncertain elections ever with far right and populist parties expected to make major gains

Dressed in a traditional white Gulf headdress and with two red crosses embroidered on his black clerical robe Kuwait's first homegrown priest cuts a unique figure in the predominantly Muslim emirate