Pope greets refugees helped through Christian 'corridors'

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - Belgium is expected to officially recognize Buddhism after the federal government approves a draft law on Friday, opening the door to federal funding,

(Reuters) - At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, according to a doctor's post-mortem report, in what opponents of military

(Reuters) - A court in Russia's second-biggest city St Petersburg upheld for the first time the right of a soldier conscripted during the military campaign in Ukraine to perform alternative civil

Russia's Orthodox leader and staunch Kremlin ally Patriarch Kirill denounced Thursday the looming eviction of monks from a monastery in Kyiv over its links to Russia.The branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church announced a rupture of ties wi ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's domestic intelligence service has narrowed down primarily to Syria-related locations the threat of an Islamist attack in Vienna that was made public on Wednesday, the

The pain wells up inside Naki Bega as she remembers being herded onto a train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi's most notorious extermination camp.The Nazis sent Bega to another concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in Germany shortly before A ...

JERUSALEM, March 15 (Reuters) - Israeli president Isaac Herzog will present alternative changes to the judiciary on Wednesday, in response to a planned overhaul by Israel's far-right coalition that

WARSAW (Reuters) - A satirical weekly featuring an image of late Pope John Paul II holding a baby doll on a cross was withdrawn from sale in post offices and state-controlled petrol stations in Poland

By Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - Before a group of young men from Aqabat Jabr refugee camp mounted a botched attack on a restaurant in Jericho popular with Israeli

By Ali Sawafta and James Mackenzie JERICHO, West Bank, March 14 (Reuters) - Before a group of young men from Aqabat Jabr refugee camp mounted a botched attack on a restaurant in Jericho popular with