Longtime Rep. John Dingell was remembered Thursday as "one of the greats" as lawmakers and former colleagues hailed his record-breaking service in the House.

The author of an explosive book on gays in the Vatican says the culture of secrecy that has hidden the double lives of clergy is "intrinsically mixed up" with the culture of cover-up about sexual abuse of minors.

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Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, who is being replaced as archbishop of Santiago, Chile, focused his last homily to messages of gratitude and farewell on Sunday.

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.

Protesters took to the streets of Dhaka on Tuesday to voice their opposition against Bangladesh's ruling Awami League, just a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's party won a landslide victory in the country's general election.

The U.S. attorney for Ohio's southern district says an American priest accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines lived with multiple boys and insisted they bathe with him.

The U.S. attorney for Ohio's southern district says an American priest accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines lived with multiple boys and insisted they bathe with him.

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As U.S.-based Roman Catholic bishops are meeting outside Chicago on the church sexual abuse scandal, many are dismayed that it has taken so long for the church leadership to meet and act after so many years.

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New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters calls on the United States to look at his country with 'fresh eyes' when it comes to trade.

An exhibit on Auschwitz will open next week in New York.

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Fifty-two citizenship candidates from over twenty-five countries took the Oath of Allegiance to become America's newest citizens Tuesday during a naturalization ceremony held at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters calls on the United States to look at his country with 'fresh eyes' when it comes to trade.

The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began accepting cases that had been blocked by an old statute of...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a New Zealand bishop over what church officials said was his "completely unacceptable" sexual behaviour with a young woman.

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Muslim women marched with Indian flags and chanted freedom slogans in Kolkata on Thursday in a protest against India's new citizenship law.

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