The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late ’90s, according to two sources with knowledge of the case. A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell...
Jakarta’s former governor, known as “Ahok,” who was sentenced last year to two years in jail for blasphemy against Islam, is to be released from prison next month, four months ahead of schedule. The ethnic Chinese Christian, whose real name is Basuki Tjahaja Purnama,...
Shakespeare has been considered a political for centuries – apart from the concessions he made to appease his patrons – but a new school of thought claims the Elizabethan play wright was a covert Catholic sympathizer who sprinkled clues about his religious beliefs...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, having just formed her fourth government, has established herself as one of Europe’s longest-serving leaders. But she enters her new term of office in a weakened position, and speculation has been turning to her possible...
At a ceremony on Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new monument of Solzhenitsyn on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth on 11 December 2018. The bronze monument sitting on a granite pedestal was designed by...
