Investors were spared immediate pain on Sunday after the European Central Bank’s landmark banking health check did not force massive capital hikes amongst the euro zone’s top lenders. The ECB said on Sunday the region’s 130 most important lenders were just 25 billion euros ($31.69 billion dollar) short of capital at the end of last […]

Asian equities rose on Monday, taking heart from upbeat earnings and U.S. Of the euro zone’s 130 top lenders, 25 failed the health checks at the end of last year but most have since repaired their finances, the European Central Bank said on Sunday.

The Vatican has demanded that world governments do more to prevent a possible "new genocide" in northern Iraq and Syria, and for Muslim leaders in particular to.

ROME – Pope Francis will travel to Turkey Nov. 28-30, the Vatican announced Tuesday, though it remains unclear whether the pontiff will be able to travel near.

This was the recurring sentiment from many American Catholics I interviewed over the past week: They were not all mirror images of each other, but they didn't expect their local church to mirror the Vatican either. And for a …

Ancient Priest's Tomb Painting Discovered Near Great Pyramid at Giza · Science & Tech (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery ) Marty – 1 second ago – foxnews.com. The painting shows vivid scenes of life, including boats …

Behind the polite and diplomatic statements regarding the “unbreakable bond” that exists between the United States and Israel lays a more disturbing truth that is slowly coming to the surface. It would require more than one …

I know it happened in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri. Now it is happening in Israel after an Arab youth who hurled firebombs at passing Israeli cars in Judea & Samaria, was killed by security forces. The Obama …

Israel is becoming a more and more popular place for Jews to live. When I made aliyah (a word that means “ascent” or “Jewish immigration to Israel”) from the U.S. in 1984, the Jewish population stood at around three million; …

JERUSALEM, Israel — For some observers, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks tying the rise of ISIS with the lack of progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations follows a pattern he's adhered to all along. The secretary …