A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding at least 16 others in what the...

US President Donald Trump on Monday called the deadly church shooting in Texas an "act of evil".

On the first leg of a visit to Asia, he spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott from Tokyo and said the state...

A man dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding at least 16 others in what the...

India's Supreme Court stated on Tuesday that the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives is unconstitutional and requested the government legislate an end to the practice.

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore sought refuge among his evangelical base amid calls from national Republicans for him to drop out of the Alabama Senate race because of allegations of sexual misconduct with...

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Pope Francis received a victim's letter in 2015 that graphically detailed sexual abuse at the hands of a priest and a cover-up by Chilean church...

A victim of sexual abuse by notorius paedophile priest Fernando Karadima has alleged Pope Francis received testimony of abuse he suffered, despite the Pontiff claiming he had never heard directly...

Facing voters at last after the year's most bitter US campaign, Alabama Republican Roy Moore cast himself Monday as the victim of a national barrage of unjust allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers.

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A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison over tweets alleging prison torture in his country and misconduct...

Pope Francis accepted the resignation on Friday of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl after he became entangled in two major sexual abuse and cover-up scandals and lost the support of many in his flock.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said Thursday that it has hired a former federal judge to review its procedures and protocols for handling allegations of sexual abuse.

A weekly food pantry has resumed operations at a site next to the Texas church that less than a week ago endured the state's worst mass shooting.

The pantry's director, Lula White, was among the more...

A weekly food pantry on Friday resumed operations at a site next to the Texas church that less than a week ago was the scene of the state's worst mass shooting.

Locals crowded the small space,...

Disgraced former Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law died early Wednesday in Rome. Law was the Boston archbishop in 2002 when court documents revealed he had failed to stop priests who molested children.

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Foreign ministers and representatives of 51 countries from Asia and Europe were meeting in the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw on Monday in a forum that aims to further political and economic cooperation but which takes place...

Chief Palestine negotiator Saeb Erekat on Wednesday strongly condemned an announcement by US President Donald Trump that America now recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

"I think President Trump...

The key whistleblower in Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the "toxic" bishops and cardinals...

While Roman Catholic Diocese across the United States have released the names of priests involved in credible sexual abuse allegations, the Charlotte Diocese has yet to follow suit.

Dozens of demonstrators took to the streets of Istanbul on Friday to protest the deadly attacks on two mosques in New Zealand.

Vice President Pence and his wife Karen brought a message of 'thankfulness' to the injured and their families at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland.