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VATICAN CITY/RAKOVSKI, BULGARIA (Reuters) - Pope Francis starts a trip on Sunday to Bulgaria and North Macedonia where he will have to tread carefully because of sensitive relations with the dominant Eastern Orthodox Church in the two Balkan countries where C…

Reacting to the announcement that IICSA was widening its religious scope, Dino Nocivelli, a specialist child abuse solicitor at BoltBurdonKemp and an ambassador for the Survivors Trust, welcomed the move. Finally! he tweeted. IICSA has agreed to look into #ch…

A Taylor University freshman and a recent grad share their perspectives on Mike Pence chosen to give commencement address. Jenna Watson, jenna.watson@indystar.com UPLAND  The selection of Vice President Mike Pence to give the commencement address next mont…

FBI agent Ryan Young briefs the media beside photos of the suspect of an alleged terror plot in Southern California on Monday in Los Angeles. Trump: After Birth, Baby Is Wrapped in a Blanket and Mother, Doctor Decide Whether to Execute the Baby Joe Biden St…

Some were celebrating one of the holiest days in Christianity. Some were working at Colombo hotels. Some were sitting down to brunches of shrimp and chicken and dim sum and sticky rice pudding and tables of food that seemed to go on forever. They were mostly…

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's conservative ruling party, takes part in a Polish tradition of taking a basket to church for a blessing in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 20, 2019.  (Photo: Czarek Sokolowski, AP) WARSAW, Poland The chairman of Po…

(WARSAW, Poland) — The chairman of Poland’s conservative ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has called the LGBT rights movement a foreign import that threatens the Polish nation. Kaczynski, Poland’s most important politician, also said “everyone must accept C…

2. Douthat obviously has a very Catholic-centered view of the world. And as obviously, he could not have these suspicions of non-Catholic Americans without his devotion to that faith. I'm not sure this essay travels well outside of that bubble. There are a g…

The deadly bombings in Sri Lanka over the weekend follow a pattern of religious terror that has become grimly familiar around the world. The attackers targeted churches on Easter Sunday, when Christians would be gathered in large numbers and vulnerable during…

Police officers work at the scene at St. Sebastian Catholic Church, after bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels on Easter, in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 22, 2019.(Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters) The religions dominant role in American culture has …