• Pope Wraps Up 4-Day Visit To Turkey

  Pope Benedict XVI, in a parting message of goodwill to Muslims at the end of his first papal trip to a predominantly Muslim nation, said Friday that the Vatican wishes to

• China Highlights Dangers on World AIDS Day

  Beijing -- China, which announced a big jump in AIDS and HIV cases last week, marked World Aids Day Friday by having schoolgirls decorate classrooms with red ribbons while taxi drivers distributed inf

• Over 35,000 Christians have Fled Iraq

  More than 35,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria to escape the violence in their country, the leader of an Iraqi Christian group said Thursday.

• Report: Kidnappers of Beheaded Priest demanded Apology for Pope's

  Relatives of a beheaded Iraqi priest say his captors had demanded a church apology for recent papal comments about Islam.

• Orthodox Church Leaders Look to Bring Coherence, Unity

  Leaders of America's Orthodox Christian churches, meeting jointly for only the third time, agreed to form a pastoral practices commission on 'bringing coherence and unity to our expression of Orthod