THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five centuries after it was boiled and placed on a pike. St Dunstan’s Church in ...

An estimated 10,000 Korean Catholics were killed for their faith in bouts of persecution that lasted about 100 years ...

OSAKA--Two historic artworks featuring the “26 martyrs” are back home in Japan for the first time in 94 years and on display ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

The Archdiocese of San Antonio will commemorate the 137th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Anacleto González Flores, the ...

Blessed Floribert Kositi, 26, gave his life in Congo by rejecting corruption and choosing faith over blood-stained wealth ...

Jasenovac is a complex of concentration camps established by the Ustaša (a Croatian fascist movement). At least 83,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and Croats who dared to oppose Nazi ideology were ...

The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus — the Feast of All Antiochian Saints. During this June 22 service, a jihadi ...

Henry VIII’s close adviser was resolute in upholding secular and spiritual authorities over individual judgment. When it came ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians.