Catholics and all people committed to protecting the planet must keep climate action from slipping into trends or tribalism, Pope Leo XIV said as he opened a global church summit on climate change ...

Abstract: Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, presents unique challenges for information retrieval (IR) due to its complex morphology, vocabulary richness, and limited computational and ...

Abstract: Amharic is morphologically complex and under-resourced language, posing difficulties in the development of natural language processing applications. This paper presents the development of ...

Disaster struck when, in the hundreds, the worshippers climbed on a makeshift scaffold to catch a glimpse of a mural on the ...

Indianapolis church leaders asked the city to be allowed to demolish Holy Cross Catholic Church. The parish argues it cannot afford renovations and that Catholic law prevents selling the property for ...

A small Catholic church in Heber City, Utah, will offer a Mass for the repose of the soul of Russell M. Nelson, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), who died on Sept ...

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who has long supported abortion rights, declined a planned "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, after backlash from Catholic ...

Various U.S. bishops expressed relief and happiness after U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, announced his decision to decline an award from the Chicago Archdiocese following backlash over his ...

Ottawa's two Catholic school boards are among the fastest-growing boards in Ontario, and both have seen even more students in their classrooms this September than they expected. The Conseil des écoles ...

Longtime Illinois Senator Dick Durbin had been set to receive the award from the Chicago archdiocese on Nov. 3. Some Catholic priests had objected to the award because of Durbin's support for legal ...

A south Alabama mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that her son was bullied and urinated on by another student while attending a school controlled by the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile earlier this ...

Hundreds gathered in Northwest Washington on Sunday for a procession and mass to support migrants and refugees. Hundreds packed into the wooden pews of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in ...