A federal judge is allowing more than 8,000 Catholic employers nationwide to reject government regulations that protect ...

The 20 million Christian, Hindu, and Muslim pilgrims who visit the “Mother of Healing” each year influence practices at the shrine. During processions and festivals, prayers are recited in ...

So much so that nearly half the population of East Timor gathered Tuesday in a seaside park for Pope Francis’ final Mass in the small Southeast Asian country whose people are deeply Catholic.

The remarkable turnout was a testament to the overwhelmingly Catholic Southeast Asian country and the esteem with which its people hold the church, which stood by the Timorese in their traumatic ...

The government, generally, cannot interfere with how we practice our religious beliefs, within reason ... This is why, for example, a Catholic school can require all students to attend Mass.

when 77% of Black Protestants and 49% of Hispanic Catholics backed him. Otherwise, the religious dynamics of the U.S. presidential campaign look about as they did in the spring. Among White ...

is the oldest living Catholic cardinal. He was born March 1, 1925. Ali al-Sistani, the grand ayatollah who is the senior religious figure for the world’s 200 million Shia Muslims, is 94.

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries, bringing with him medicine ...

Pope Francis held an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Papua New Guinea's faithful on Sunday, imploring this nation "at the edge of the world" to draw closer to the Catholic faith.