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CLEVELAND — President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 is leading observers to...

As Sri Lanka marked the second anniversary of the Easter terror attacks, a Buddhist monk claimed that trained terrorists are...

The number of death sentences handed down by Indonesian courts last year rose by 46 percent on the previous year,...

Community pantries are springing up across the Philippines after Catholic bishops this week called on people to support the effort...

Church officials in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province have condemned a suicide bombing in Quetta in which five people died and...

Catholics in a northern Thai province have been supporting thousands of displaced Karen refugees from Myanmar — in stark contrast...

Indonesian police have arrested a Protestant pastor in Papua for allegedly supplying arms to separatist rebels in the restive region.Reverend Paniel...

Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has intensified in conflict-torn Kachin state, leading to civilian casualties...

Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh has ordered a two-week lockdown in Vientiane after a surge in confirmed Covid-19 cases, believed...

Pope Francis has renewed his appeal to the international community to forgive the debt of poor countries whose financial burdens...