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The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, to investigate claims of apparitions and other mystical phenomena attributed to the Virgin Mary.

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for freedom of worship for Catholics in China, a religious minority that has faced historic harassment and persecution in the communist country, causing friction between the Vatican and Beijing.

The report names 451 clerics and religious brothers with substantiated claims of sexual abuse against them in the US.

BALTIMORE -- Archdiocese of Baltimore officials, particularly Archbishop William Lori, have responded in recent weeks to a report by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church with interviews, an FAQ and messages to parishioners across Central and Western Maryland.

As the groundswell of anger over the death of three persons by a raging wild gaur continue to rock the high-range settlements of Central Travancore, the issue on Sunday took a political turn with a war of words between the Catholic church and Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran.

The ACT government is expected to introduce laws allowing voluntary assisted dying by the end of this year. For those like Kath Dyason, who has a terminal illness, it can't come soon enough.

A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged in the Andean country in the wake of a pedophilia scandal involving a deceased Jesuit priest

The government has not been invited to chat with staff.

If the miracle is ‘verified’ by the Vatican, it could result in a sainthood for the founder of the Knights of Columbus

Priests in France will be required to carry QR codes that can reveal if they are facing a sexual abuse charge.

The minister says she is surprised at the rhetoric from the church.