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The Vatican on Saturday said that it and China had renewed a secret and contested agreement on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in the communist country.

Legal experts have said recommendations around mandatory reporting would still allow for “Rotherham type abusers” to avoid being reported.

Alcohol and psychic mediums are among the list of things banned

LOS ANGELES — The two sides agree on one thing: The Church of Scientology is not on trial.

Tasmania's Catholic archbishop agrees to change a planned reading at a graduation mass after a backlash on social media, and concerns it would be inappropriate.

A former Church official who defrauded the Diocese of London out of more than £5 million while flying around the world and bankrolling a gambling habit is facing jail.

A commission investigating child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday it has already gathered more than 400 testimonies of alleged victims but admitted the number of actual cases was "much higher".

Pope Francis on Tuesday called for church unity during one of the most polarised periods in modern Catholic history, as he marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

Action council not happy with the four-member panel appointed by the Kerala government to study the port project’s link to coastal erosion

Egypt on Wednesday participated in the inaugural session of the conference of Coptic Bishops of Europe held in the Irish capital Dublin, in the presence of the 15 Coptic Bishops serving in the continent. Minister of Immigration and Affairs of Egyptians Abroad Soha Gendy praised “the role of the Egyptian…

“People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” This statement, made recently by Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn in relation to a homophobic law in Hungary, show that medieval is often used as a synonym for uncultured,…