A 27 year old abbot was arrested in Udon Thani for allegedly assaulting a 12 year old boy. Evidence led to arrest; bail ...

Phumtham Wechayachai visits Xinjiang, apologises for Uyghur detention, praises safe return, and checks on their well-being.

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Carl Lundstrom was 64. The co-founder and financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundstrom, has died ...

The U.K. Christian right is increasingly drawing on a U.S.-forged playbook. It is also drawing on U.S. money. But the U.K.

The lawsuit claims the Peoria Catholic Diocese was negligent and did not have a system in place to prevent the abuse.

Sony are experimenting with AI characters who'll speak to the player using OpenAI and Chat-GPT, according to leaked footage ...

His visit on February 28 was an entirely different affair. This time Zelensky was symbolically defrocked by the new administration; his status as modern-day saint dramatically cancelled. Ukraine and ...

Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy when they are ordained. A priest can be defrocked for breaking that vow — or for being charged with a crime.

Really? New York’s Democratic Party can offer moderate-voting Staten Islanders no one better than a defrocked governor still under an ethical cloud? That’s a thin bench. Torres may not want to ...

Defrocked monk Gabriel de Foigny imagined Australia - then known only as the “southern land” - in a novel that has similarities with Thomas More’s Utopia.

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