Pope Benedict XVI sought to reach out to the heavily secular people of the Czech Republic on Saturday, decrying the "wounds" left by atheistic communism and urging them to rediscover their Christian roots. ...more

September 27, 2009

On a frigid evening in January, more than 10,000 people gathered outside a 13th century cathedral in this Baltic capital to protest the government's handling of Latvia's economic crisis and demand early elections. ...more

February 2, 2009

Financial problems are threatening the completion of a Warsaw church meant to commemorate the late Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism. ...more

December 22, 2007

With President Vladimir V. Putin's opponents persistently hobbled by the Kremlin, his party on Sunday swept to the kind of landslide long predicted for the parliamentary elections. ...more

December 3, 2007

An explosion almost certainly caused by a buildup of methane gas tore through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least 63 miners in what has become a deadly pattern in the mining industries of the former Soviet Union. ...more

November 19, 2007