October 3, 2016 Pope Francis tells American Catholics to vote your conscience Pope Francis weighted into the U.S. elections Sunday, urging American Catholics struggling to choose a president to study the issues, pray and then vote your conscience.
October 3, 2016 Pope draws line between trans ministry and 'indoctrination' Pope Francis says Jesus would never turn away transgender faithful and that priests today should accompany them spiritually, even if they undergo sex change operations, sin and repent.
October 3, 2016 Pope in 2017: Portugal, India, Bangladesh, Colombia, Africa Pope Francis will visit Portugal next year and is "almost sure" he'll go to India and Bangladesh.
October 2, 2016 At least 52 confirmed dead in stampede at Ethiopia religious event Dozens of people were crushed to death Sunday in a stampede after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an anti-government protest that grew out of a massive religious festival, witnesses said. The Oromia regional government confirmed the death toll at 52.
October 2, 2016 Lawyer says 3 Egyptian Journalists arrested were tortured The lawyer for three Egyptian journalists who were arrested while conducting street interviews says they were beaten and tazered by security officers during questioning at a central Cairo station.
October 2, 2016 France church reopens after priest killed in ISIS attack A Normandy church where Islamic extremists slit a priest's throat and used nuns as human shields reopened Sunday for the first time since the gruesome attack, with a special cleansing ritual and call for tolerance across religions.
October 2, 2016 Pope Francis praises religious tolerance in volatile region with Catholic minority Pope Francis praised Azerbaijan on Sunday as a model for a world divided by violent extremism, sidestepping criticism of the government for the sake of encouraging religious tolerance in an often-volatile region where Catholics are a minority.
October 2, 2016 Benedict XVI's aide: 2014 World Cup led to his leaving The personal aide to the emeritus pontiff, Benedict XVI, says the increasingly frail pope had hoped to stay in the papacy until 2014 but resigned a year earlier because of soccer's World Cup.
October 2, 2016 Queen gifts home-made altar hanging to famed Lutheran church The Queen of Denmark has donated an altar hanging she embroidered to the German church considered a starting point for Martin Luther's Reformation movement almost 500 years ago.
October 1, 2016 Egypt arrests 3 reporters conducting street interviews Egyptian officials say police detained three journalists who were conducting street interviews about President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's request for small donations of spare change to fund development programs.
