Critics say it could hasten forced assimilation, lead to targeting of critics outside China. Beijing rejects charges.

Ayatollah Khamenei's death leads to 40-day mourning and regional tensions. Leadership change in Iran by December 31 at 14.5% ...

The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress strengthens the status of Mandarin as the official language and, according to Beijing, seeks to build social cohesion and prevent separatism and terroris ...

Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) yesterday announced the establishment of a cross-agency platform to counter transnational ...

(The following is the text of a homily given by Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, during a special ...

I was just 9 years old when America celebrated its 200th birthday, but I remember the Bicentennial as a national wellspring of joy, gratitude and unity that’s almost unimaginable today. I was in the ...

China dismissed ⁠U.S. ⁠and EU criticism of the country's ⁠new law on ethnic unity as a "malicious smear" and interference in its internal ​affairs on Friday, legislation one senior Taiwanese official ...

A mourner holds a portrait of Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the start of his funeral ceremonies at ...

Iranian leaders have been seen praying over the coffins of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family members ...

Religious liberty “holds sacred the inner sphere of the person where convictions are formed and where conscience can guide ...

The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) 2026 has delivered one of its strongest assessments yet of Liberia's democratic governance, painting a picture of a country that has preserved ...

The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist group that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, ...