RELIGION August 3, 2016 Most prominent cases in China by lawyers now in custody Trials started this week of Chinese lawyers and legal rights activists who were detained in July last year and charged with subversion for their attempts to bring attention to abuses and demand government accountability.
Vatican August 2, 2016 Pope Francis says it's 'terrible' that children are taught they can choose gender Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times "the epoch of sin against God the Creator."
VIDEO August 2, 2016 Satanic Temple wants to open after school clubs in schools Group seeks to counter religious clubs
Europe August 2, 2016 French Muslims step out of invisibility after attacks French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France.
Europe August 2, 2016 Funeral Mass for murdered French priest: attackers were 'Satan' Hundreds of mourners were gathering Tuesday in the cathedral of Rouen, in western France, for the funeral Mass for the priest who was killed by two Islamic extremists last week in the nearby town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
VIDEO August 2, 2016 Hundreds gather to honor priest murdered in terror attack Funeral in France for Jacques Hamel
Vatican August 2, 2016 Pope sets up Vatican panel to study female deacons issue Pope Francis has set up a panel to study whether women could serve as deacons, a role now reserved to men.
Europe August 2, 2016 Roma and Sinti victims of Nazis remembered at Auschwitz Observances are being held at Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of the camp, who, like the Jews, were condemned to destruction under Nazi Germany's murderous ideology.
Europe August 2, 2016 Pope: Not right to talk about a 'violent, terrorist' Islam Pope Francis on Sunday said he won't label Islam as "terrorist" because that would be unfair and not true.
Europe August 2, 2016 Polish Cardinal Franciszek Macharski dies at 89 Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, a popular Polish prelate who served for many years as archbishop of Krakow, inheriting a position opened by the election of Pope John Paul II, has died.