UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief appointed a British human rights activist on Tuesday to carry out a strategic ...

The history of Gaza is as complex as it is tragic. From ancient civilizations to modern conflict, explore the rich and ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

In this interview, an anonymous Palestinian legal and political science scholar speaks with Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas about his life in Gaza under Israeli occupation before and ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of ...

Amb. Amma Twum-Amoah (Ghana) was elected as Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development (HHS) department. She is the former Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to Djibouti, ...

“The destruction I saw there was astonishing.” A detailed account from a doctor who, during the brief ceasefire, spent nine ...

Scientists have documented and analyzed 30 inscriptions and nine images marked onto the walls of the Last Supper Room in ...

In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving ...

After a massive earthquake hit Myanmar on March 28, social media posts falsely claimed images of a destroyed town showed the ...