Tracy Wilkinson

The Organization of American States on Wednesday repealed its 47-year suspension of Cuba, jettisoning a legacy of the Cold War and promising to further the communist island nation's integration into...

In a significant departure from past U.S. policy, the Obama administration announced Monday that it will permit unlimited travel to Cuba by Cuban-Americans and allow them to transfer money to...

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday called for collective diplomacy, and not "the decisions of a few," to resolve conflicts and said human rights had to be based on "unchanging justice"...

In an unprecedented gesture, Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Thursday with a small group of men and women who were sexually abused as youths by their clergy, an emotional...

A mere 700 years after the fact, the Vatican last week attempted to set the record straight on the Knights Templar, a medieval military order charged with protecting pilgrims en...

The Italians were seated in two cars outside Da Bruno's pizzeria in the German city of Duisburg, fresh from a birthday party, when gunmen approached in the dark early Wednesday....

The pop-idol priest strides to the altar, a rock band pounding away to his right, cameras flashing to his left and the multitudes pulsating in this cavernous ex-factory that serves...

An outspoken journalist who repeatedly clashed with Turkish authorities here over recognition of the early 20th Century slaughter of Armenians was shot to death in broad daylight Friday on a...

In the largest protest yet against the impending arrival here of Pope Benedict XVI, more than 20,000 Turks filled a town square Sunday to denounce the visit as an affront...

Not so long ago, novelist Orhan Pamuk faced imprisonment in his homeland of Turkey. On Thursday, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for novels of rich melancholy that...