During church services on Sunday, Catholics around the country were read a blistering letter assailing the Obama administration for an “assault on religious liberty” in the form of a coming requirement that most church-linked organizations …

New Jersey’s black leaders Wednesday lambasted Gov. Chris Christie for saying that people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.

If voters were expecting a knockout in Thursday night’s CNN debate, they were disappointed. Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are still standing. But the news of the evening was Rick Santorum’s challenge to Romney’s …

Newt Gingrich has pulled a Spanish-language ad accusing rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant” after sharp criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

Atheist Richard Dawkins appears to be leading the charge among non-believers in the U.K. who are appalled that a Swiss philosopher and writer residing in London plans to build a “temple for atheists” in the …

Police in a north Nigeriacity where a radical Islamist sect attack last week killed 185 people say that a German expatriate working for a construction company has been kidnapped there.

Syrian troops stormed a flashpoint suburb of Damascuson Thursday, rounding people up in house-to-house raids and clashing with army defectors, activists said, as the 10-month-old uprising inches ever closer to the capital.

Iraqi officials say insurgents have bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq, killing 10 people inside it.

More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as international …

Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program.