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Clerics of a major political party have issued a religious decree urging careful inquiries into blasphemy cases following a police raid...

A human rights group in Indonesia has called for changes to provisions in the criminal code dealing with detaining suspects...

More than three decades ago, from Oct. 9-14, 1989, Pope John Paul II was in Indonesia for a state and pastoral...

A woman in the Philippines has vowed to spend her life as a consecrated virgin, the oldest recognized form of...

Before he became guardian and commissary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington in 2013, Franciscan Father...

An elderly Indian Jesuit priest languishing in jail on a treason charge has sought a copy of his laptop hard drive...

After the Supreme Court blocked the execution of an Alabama man because it ruled his pastor should be allowed to...

Two days after the Iraqi government announced stringent Covid-19 precautions, including the closure of mosques and churches "until further notice,"...

Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta has issued a Lenten pastoral letter calling on Catholics to seize their lives back with...

An Indian human rights group that monitors atrocities against Christians has expressed opposition to a directive by Daman's administration requiring the mandatory veneration...