Pepito Guimalan, 61, village chief of Maya in MacArthur, said mining had become a vital alternative livelihood. “Our land is rich in magnetite sand, which makes it less ideal for farming,” Guimalan ...

Pakistani Christians observed a nationwide “Day of Prayer for Peace” amid violent anti-US protests following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli air ...

In the April 13-23 visit to the African continent -- the first since the start of his pontificate -- Pope Leo XIV will travel to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. The Vatican has ...

Catholics across the Middle East are reeling with shock and sorrow, and responding with prayer, amid joint strikes Israeli ...

The accused head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutor's Office, since retired, remains in custody awaiting trial ...

Prelates in region call for prayer and warn of a 'spiral of vengeance' after retaliatory strikes across the Gulf ...

Qatar's air force shot down two Sukhoi Su-24 bombers, the defense ministry said — the first time a Gulf country has hit Iranian planes, after Tehran began region-wide attacks in retaliation for US and ...

S. Korean Marian shrine controversy highlights delicate balance between popular piety, episcopal authority in Catholic life ...

The top court in India's Maharashtra state has ruled that the image of a Cross or a statue of Jesus Christ in a house does ...

Cambodia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for early release lodged by lawyers representing five Mother Nature environmental activists who were jailed for up to eight years for plotting against ...

The truth is that Hong Kong today is a bizarre and cruel mix of George Orwell’s 1984 and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In the trial scene in Alice in Wonderland, the Queen demands “sentence ...