France's Bishop Thibault Verny, 59, replaces American Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the retired archbishop of Boston.

Shylock refers to the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” who demands a pound of flesh ...

The abuse is most evident in Iran, which bans the faith and has been widely accused of persecuting its adherents, human ...

The floods, among the nation’s worst in decades, swept away people sleeping in tents, cabins and homes along the river Friday ...

The girls from Camp Mystic, a riverside Christian camp in Hunt, Texas, still were unaccounted for about 36 hours after the ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

(RNS) — Ashura, the 10th day of the first month in the Islamic calendar, falls this year on Saturday (July 5). A sacred day ...

During a mid-June event at Otter Creek Church, musicians and activists praised PEPFAR for saving millions of lives and urged ...

For decades, the 14th Dalai Lama has sustained a nation in exile and managed to build a community that’s kept the Tibetan ...

Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.