April 14, 2016 Cardinal Dolan: Persecuted Christians just want to go home Iraqi Christians still have hope
April 14, 2016 France responds to watchdog criticism with parenting leaflet A year after Europe's top human rights body said France was not doing enough to prevent corporal punishment of children, the French government is sending guidance to all future parents.
April 13, 2016 Reporter tells Vatican court he was obliged to publish news An Italian journalist has testified that he never pressured a Vatican monsignor to give him confidential documents and says it was his obligation as a journalist to publish them because they were in the public interest.
April 13, 2016 Call to investigate Nigerian military killings of Shiites Amnesty International is calling for an investigation of military killings of Nigeria's minority Shiite Muslims following revelations of hundreds buried in a mass grave.
April 13, 2016 Mexican experts find early burial in 1st colonial cathedral Archaeologists have found a massive stone slab covering the tomb of one of the first Catholic priests in Mexico following the 1521 Spanish conquest, a grave sunk into the floor of what appears to be an Aztec temple.
April 13, 2016 Israeli police promote first Muslim to deputy commissioner Israel promoted an Arab police officer to deputy commissioner on Wednesday, making him the highest-ranking Muslim ever to serve in the force at a time when authorities are battling a wave of attacks by Palestinians that has frayed relations between Jews and Arabs.
April 13, 2016 With migrant mission to Greece, pope cements Orthodox ties When Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, visit migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos this weekend, they'll be doing more than sending a political message about the need to welcome refugees.
April 13, 2016 Surprising spiritual life of the world's most famous athiest 'The Faith of Christopher Hitchens'
April 13, 2016 Cyprus minister: Egyptian hijacking suspect asks for asylum Cyprus' interior minister says a man who has admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to Cyprus is claiming political asylum.
April 13, 2016 French premier favors Muslim headscarf ban at universities France's prime minister says he'd favor a ban on Muslim headscarves in universities, prompting criticism from within his own government.