Four years after a Columbian-born nun was kidnapped by Islamist militants in Mali, the Malian church reissued calls for her release.

Houthi rebels have attacked the Saudi-backed Yemen government's stronghold of Marib. The news comes days after Biden vowed to end all US support for "offensive operations" in Yemen.

As an estimated 100,000 protesters demonstrated in Yangon and thousands more marched across the country on Wednesday, 40 police joined protesters in Kayah province.

Amid ongoing unrest, Haitian President Jovenel Moise has ousted senior judges proposed as possible interim national leaders.

South Africa has had to halt its vaccine roll out after just a week after report found that the vaccine may not be a match for a new variant identified in the country.

A Filipino priest has made it his mission to cater for the spiritual and medical wellbeing of his flock.

The President of Colombia has announced that he will give protected status to nearly one million Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia.

As tens of thousands take to Myanmar's streets, police have fired water cannons to disperse the crowds of demonstrators in Naypyidaw, the country's capital.

The deaths of ten Yanomami children in the Brazilian state of Amazonas has fuelled fears about the impact of coronavirus on indigenous communities.

CNA Staff, Feb 4, 2021 / 12:02 am MT (CNA).- A Catholic lawyer who helped found the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has been nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

CNA Staff, Feb 5, 2021 / 03:00 am MT (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa said on Thursday that Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga has tested positive for COVID-19 and is “stable and recovering” at a local private clinic. 

Following an appeal by bishops, supplies of life-saving oxygen have started to reach the Brazilian state of Amazonas.