Slovakia would prefer to accept Christian refugees under a European plan to resettle people who have fled from wars and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Parking spat as motive for triple murder--N.C. Muslims don’t buy it

12 murdered at satirical newspaper

A row between the Catholic Church and the government over a tetanus vaccine aimed at women in their childbearing years has clergy urging people to shun the injection, saying it’s a stealth population-control ploy.On Nov.11, the bishops appearing before the parliamentary health committee said t

Three elderly Italian nuns murdered in Burundi were laid to rest on Sept. 11 in a Xaverian cemetery in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened calls for action about their death.Sister Lucia Pulici, 75, Sister Olga Raschietti, 82, and Sister Bernadetta Boggian, 79, of the Xaverian Miss

After kidnapping schoolgirls, militants takes aim at churches in northeast

One of the nation’s leading — and official — champions of religious freedom implored the Obama administration to add Pakistan and Syria to the list of nations that most egregiously violate religious rights.Before a congressional subcommittee on May 22 Robert P. George, chairman of

The Cardinal denies wrongdoing: “I don’t understand these attacks.”

Pope Francis has approved a new direction for the scandal-ridden Vatican bank as it seeks to improve transparency and compliance with international guidelines, the Vatican said on April 7.The bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, was founded in 1942 to manage funds for Roman Catholic ins