August 3, 2016 ISIS announces new Boko Haram leader Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who promises to end attacks on mosques and markets used by Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group.
August 3, 2016 Pope: at Auschwitz I prayed for all war and violence victims Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today's cruelties in "this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering." In recounting his visit to Poland last week, he told pilgrims at the Vatican Wednesday that while seeing the camps, he thought that even though today's cruelties aren't as concentrated as those practiced at the Nazi facilities, they're similar in sense of suffering.
August 3, 2016 Most prominent cases in China by lawyers now in custody Trials started this week of Chinese lawyers and legal rights activists who were detained in July last year and charged with subversion for their attempts to bring attention to abuses and demand government accountability.
August 2, 2016 Pope Francis says it's 'terrible' that children are taught they can choose gender Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times "the epoch of sin against God the Creator."
August 2, 2016 Satanic Temple wants to open after school clubs in schools Group seeks to counter religious clubs
August 2, 2016 French Muslims step out of invisibility after attacks French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France.
August 2, 2016 Funeral Mass for murdered French priest: attackers were 'Satan' Hundreds of mourners were gathering Tuesday in the cathedral of Rouen, in western France, for the funeral Mass for the priest who was killed by two Islamic extremists last week in the nearby town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
August 2, 2016 Hundreds gather to honor priest murdered in terror attack Funeral in France for Jacques Hamel
August 2, 2016 Pope sets up Vatican panel to study female deacons issue Pope Francis has set up a panel to study whether women could serve as deacons, a role now reserved to men.
