Terrorist activity across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in 2025 underscored the persistence and geographic expansion of jihadist violence beyond Western countries.

Pope Francis was the first pope born outside of Europe in over a millennium. Pope Francis marked multiple firsts for the papacy, becoming the first Latin American pope and the first from the Southern ...

Africa and Asia are connected by the Indian Ocean, and, for centuries, have exchanged people and knowledge through maritime and land pathways. From trade to religion, food to music, language to ...

Faithful gather in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican waiting for Pope Leo XIV to appear at his studio’s window, Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops from Asia, ...

In its World Watch List 2026 , the group revealed that two out of every five Christians in Asia faced hostility over their ...

While the world’s media bring terrible images of hungry Palestinians in Gaza to our screens—facing starvation due to Israel’s war of annihilation—rising levels of hunger in Africa and Asia go ...

South Africa must broaden its trade relations and seek a better-balanced export footprint in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, said Deputy Trade Minister Zuko Godlimpi, citing ...