During a typical week, readers (or podcast listeners) send me emails or messages through various social-media platforms. Often, these people are frustrated or even angry. Most folks are not upset with ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

Violence is worsening in South Sudan according to the Vatican representative to the African country, saying the world’s ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... For the Jewish people of those times and orthodox Jews to this day, all human life has as its author the one God whose creative ...

South Sudan has formally been at peace since a 2018 peace deal ended a five-year civil war that pitted forces loyal to President Salva Kiir against those of First Vice President Riek Machar and ...

South Sudan's security situation is volatile as civil war-time leadership divisions deepen. The UN has expressed concerned, ...

In 1956, Britain and Egypt relinquished their colonial control over Sudan, forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and ...

The ongoing crisis in Sudan has exposed more than 12 million people to widespread sexual violence, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). As the war nears its two-year mark ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church. Before discussing ... to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between ...

The photo, taken in Kyiv in December 2018 on the sidelines of a “reunification council” that painfully ratified the creation of an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, is revealing.

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...