Martha Hillmer, who is active in Faith in Action, programs for children and other volunteer efforts, has been honored by the ...

The Vatican and China on Thursday renewed an agreement on the appointment of bishops in China and the Vatican promised to push the communist government to allow more freedom of religion.

Pope Francis has signed off on a two-year extension of a deal with China on the appointment of bishops that critics have condemned as a sell-out to the communist government, a senior Vatican source ...

Yesterday's controversy, today's silence October 1 marked the anniversary of the canonisation desired by John Paul II which gave rise to the most ...

Beijing's top diplomat in Hong Kong has set out four red lines for the city's new U.S. Consul General Julie Eadeh.

Four people were killed and eight others were wounded in the shooting. Four people were killed and eight others were injured in a mass shooting and fire during worship services at a Church of Jesus ...

China tries to exert total control over religion, according to a September report by the United States Commission on ...

A state auditor report has found the Mass Save program provides a skewed distribution of its resources favorably benefitting higher-income communities, with Worcester among the top Massachusetts ...

Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, said the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) must cease at four parishes and will be only be permitted at a chapel beginning Oct. 2. After ...

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI - As local and federal authorities continue to try to grasp what motivated a man to barrel into a Michigan church Sunday morning, spraying bullets and lighting it on fire in a ...

Some terminal operators at China’s Qingdao Port, which handles around one-sixth of the country’s crude intake, will impose new restrictions on old tankers — a move widely seen as targeting vessels ...