Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, Angola's presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.

Pope Francis remains stable in hospital and a recent chest scan confirmed improvements in his condition, the Vatican said on ...

Pope Francis’ recovery from double pneumonia is continuing. The Vatican said Wednesday Francis had a quiet night at Rome’s ...

A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed a 47-year-old woman and wounded at least nine ...

Poland has charged a Belarusian citizen who set fire to a large hardware store in Warsaw last April with committing an act of sabotage on behalf of Russian intelligence, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

As the country faces fresh bloodshed, Bishop Hanna Jallouf, Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo, warned against division and urges ...

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

President Donald Trump's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants en masse has drawn the ire of Pope Francis. The Pope, in a letter to American bishops, took aim at Trump's policy, but ...

Pope Francis has participated remotely in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat after getting good news from his doctors.

Church primates in Syria condemned “massacres targeting innocent civilians” and prayed for peace after violent unrest in ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

With the Damascus government to join Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said. Photos showed interim ...