He concludes trip to Turkey
ISTANBUL — Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians demanded an end to the persecution of religious minorities...
ISTANBUL — His head bowed and hands clasped in front of him, Pope Francis stood Saturday for two minutes of silent prayer facing east inside one of Istanbul’s most impor...
MOSCOW — The legendary Russian hockey coach Viktor Tikhonov, whose teams won three Olympic gold medals, has died after an undisclosed long illness. He was 84.
Russia’s K...
BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s neighborhood of Gorayaat, a small Shiite enclave on a bend in the Tigris River, exemplifies the failures of Iraq’s security agencies trying to protec...
Others feared to be dead
CAIRO — A shoddy seven-story building collapsed early this morning in a populous eastern Cairo district, killing at least 17 people while several...
BAUCHI, Nigeria — Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up today in a crowded market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, accord...
4 Italians and 2 Indians picked
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis canonized six new saints Sunday, including a priest and a nun from the Indian state of Kerala, in a packed cer...
Political accord due by March 1
VIENNA — Nuclear negotiators have failed to meet a deadline today for a deal that would ease international concerns about Iran’s atomic pr...
VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry decided today to pull back from nuclear talks in Vienna, leaving Iran’s foreign minister to ponder an apparent new proposal m...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Latin Americans born into Roman Catholic families have increasingly left the faith for Protestant churches, while many others have dropped organized rel...
