SAINT-DENIS, March 14, 2009 (AFP) - Thousands flocked to a Roman Catholic church on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion Saturday after believers said they saw the "face of Christ" in the pleats...
The US Roman Catholic church paid out 436 million dollars in 2008 for sex abuse cases involving clergy members, showed an official report Friday aimed at healing deep wounds of the scandal that blew...
Dear Woman,
I know that in reality you cannot move on your own, you still cannot have the initiative, and can not provide your own decisions.
You are still dependent on men and live under...
Politicians and experts on both sides of the Atlantic were squaring up Thursday to calls for tougher gun laws and tighter monitoring of video games, after two more horrific massacres.
The debate...
A teenager who went on a rampage in his old school announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, an official said Thursday, as Germany mourned the 15 people he gunned down.
"I have...
The UN's drug-policy body CND laid out Thursday in Vienna a new action plan to tackle the global drug problem, with special emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation.
Ministers and heads of state...
Women rallied worldwide Sunday to demand equal rights and protest against domestic violence and growing poverty in the global economic crisis as they marked International Women's Day.
Thousands...
SEOUL, March 9, 2009 (AFP) - More than 700 South Koreans were blocked from travelling to a joint industrial complex in North Korea on Monday after Pyongyang cut its last communication channel with...
A French bill granting rights to stepparents sparked a row in government Tuesday when a minister described it as an under-handed way of recognizing gay parents and vowed to fight the measure....
VIENNA, March 7, 2009 (AFP) - A village in northern Austria, worried by its dwindling population, is offering free land to all who pledge to start a family in a decade, the Kurier newspaper reported...