Thousands Vent Outrage at U.S. Nun's Brazil Burial
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Thousands of Amazon peasants flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented anger that the Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned foreign activist.
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Dozens of protesters rallied Wednesday in front of the U.S. Embassy calling on American authorities to send back to Romania a Marine who was allegedly involved in a car accident that killed a popular rock ...
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A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.
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An American nun was shot to death in northern Brazil on Saturday, less then a week after she accused loggers and ranchers of threatening to kill rural workers, authorities said.
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In a eulogy marked by soft sobbing from mourners, the Rev. Wally Keymont criticized the rowdy fans whose behavior led to the young woman&#39;s death.
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Tens of thousands of anti-globalization activists converged on southern Brazil Wednesday for what has become an annual ritual of opposition to corporate-sponsored capitalism and the divide between the rich and poor nations.
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The American delegation has found itself in a controversy after a phrase that Brazilians considered prejudiced and demeaning appeared on a message board at the American media center.
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Hundreds of people attend the burial in Texas of the wife of former US President Lyndon B Johnson.
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An elderly American nun killed in the struggle to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers and ranchers was buried in her adopted homeland after a funeral attended by thousands who remembered her courage and dedication.
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Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral Monday of a slain 7-year-old who was strangled along with her 10-year-old stepsister in a double murder which has shocked Belgium.
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By Mary Milliken and Juana Casas BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Protests mounted onSunday as families and friends mourned the more than 180 youngpeople killed in a blaze at a rock club.
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Congregants in Connecticut are debating the death penalty with new anguish after the brutal murders of three members of a family who belonged to the church.
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Police searched Sunday for four people suspected in the slaying of a 74-year-old American nun &#151; the most prominent activist gunned down in the Amazon since the 1988 murder of Chico Mendes.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hecklers angry at the government shouted over the sound of choirs at the tense funeral on Tuesday of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.
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A new Catholic migrant outreach center named for former Diocese of Tucson Bishop Manuel D. Moreno is drawing protests from a support group for victims of clergy abuse.
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Angry demonstrators mobbed the car of US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer after she arrived in Sudan, demanding that she return home, an AFP correspondent said.
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St Louia - Television viewers in the US were bombarded on Sunday by the image of the 36-year-old Kansas woman who confessed to the bizarre crime of strangling a pregnant woman before cutting an eight-month old baby from the womb and taking the child home.