VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis reinforced his radical reshaping of the Catholic Church by naming 20 new cardinals from countries as far afield as Ethiopia, Tonga, Thailand, and Panama. The clerics—who come from 18 different countries—include 15 …

Vatican City, Jan 5, 2015 / 11:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In creating 20 new cardinals – 15 of whom will be cardinal electors – Pope Francis has continued to set his sights on the world's peripheries, and at the same time he began designing the College of …

Pope Francis is holding a raffle to raise money for the poor, and the grand prize will put your own paltry Church Bingo Night winnings to shame: it's a used Popemobile! Yes, rather than just selling his old 4×4 Fiat Panda on craigslist like the average …

An Egyptian citizen, identified as "Nagy" by Arabic news site Ahram.org, was illegally digging in his backyard when he found a tunnel leading to the Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid, nicknamed the Great Pyramid, is the oldest and largest of the three Giza …

46 ist kein Alter – schon gar nicht für einen Fürsten der Finsternis. Zwar scheint Marilyn Manson in den letzten Jahren etwas zahmer geworden zu sein, doch hin und wieder macht er noch immer Schlagzeilen als "Schock-Rocker". Die besten davon gibt es …

It's been quite a long time since we last saw Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and according to The Chinese Room, it's going to be quite a while longer. The developer posted last week that Everybody's Gone to the Rapture will not be in attendance at …

Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007, has continued to suffer a chronic electricity shortage. Since 2012, a rotation system has been used to deliver electricity to homes in the Gaza Strip. Electricity is delivered to certain homes for …

Cette plainte concerne entre autres Mahmoud Abbas et Rami Hamdallah pour des faits de crimes de guerre. L'ONG Israel Law Center a déposé trois plaintes devant la Cour pénale internationale lundi, contre des dirigeants de l'Autorité palestinienne, pour …

#BREAKING : U.S. opposes Israel's freeze on Palestinian tax revenues http://t.co/XcDEMtvooW. — @AlArabiya_Eng. Partner Disclaimer: This item was submitted to breakingnews.com, but has not been approved by our editors. see original on twitter.com.

The move appears to be a longshot as the court receives thousands of such requests and rarely takes action. But it comes a week after the Palestinians announced they would be joining the international court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.