On Thursday the Catholic Church in California scored a significant legal victory regarding the right of Catholic hospitals to refuse certain medical procedures.

On his first visit to Rome’s synagogue as pope, Francis called on Catholics and Jews to “strengthen” their common “commitment for peace and justice.”

National election will be seen as expressing the Taiwan people's dissatisfaction with its relationship with mainland China.

Stricter laws and quicker removals of criminal foreigners cannot replace a societal debate.

Netflix true crime series exposes systemic questions about our criminal justice system.

Investors both in the United States and overseas were still shaking from a week destabilized first by sharp exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an executed Shiite cleric and then by major plummets on China’s stock markets that led to trading being halted twice.