The Catholic church says Pope Francis will not apologize to Canadian residential school survivors who were taken from their families and put in government schools where they were forced to convert to Christianity.

The Vatican on Friday has removed the suspended Guam archbishop from office and ordered him not to return to the island after convicting him of some charges in a sex abuse trial

Pakistani police say they have arrested a man and his accomplice for throwing a shoe at former premier Nawaz Sharif in the eastern city of Lahore

The head of the Catholic Church's leading academic center on preventing priestly sexual abuse says the #MeToo movement and the recent controversy over a Chilean bishop show the need for a broader response to "the abuse of power and conscience."

Famed cricketer turned politician says meeting US President Donald Trump would be a "bitter pill" to swallow should he become Pakistan's prime minister in elections later this year, but "I would meet him."

Catholic officials in Italy have threatened former altar boys of the pope with criminal defamation charges for having publicly accused an older seminarian of sexual misconduct when they lived together at the youth seminary inside the Vatican gardens

Sexual abuse is pervasive at Islamic schools in Pakistan, but the problem is seldom acknowledged and even more seldom prosecuted, an Associated Press investigation finds

AP investigation finds hundreds of cases of sex abuse reported at Islamic schools in Pakistan over past decade

Legion of Christ says rector of diocesan seminary fathered two children, leaving priesthood