In the small village of Mayirye, Uganda, it has long been the morning chore of girls and women to walk down to a polluted pond and tote back water for the day. That was the water used for bathing, ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (CBS) - Help save lives more than 7,000 miles away. That was the goal for a small group of Villanova University engineering students during their senior capstone course. The students ...

Erisafan Khayiki, 80, whose feet are so swollen they hurt just to place them on the floor, grimaces in pain as he tries to get out of bed with the help of his wife, Maria Kimono, 69, at their home in ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people, officials said Monday. Disaster ...

There are some 1,500 Jews living in Uganda's Abayudaya villages. How do they maintain their Judaism in such a remote community? We are sitting in services listening to melodies both familiar and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Suspected cult members attacked a village in Uganda, killing at least eight people, including a child as young as three and members of the assailants' families, authorities said on ...

MBALE, eastern Uganda — Meridah Nandudu brews a medium roast coffee at the headquarters of Bayaaya Specialty Coffee, a company she founded and runs. "Medium roast is my favorite," she says, taking a ...

NABALANGA, Uganda (AP) — Look closely and you will see them. Atop dirt floors in dim mud huts. At a stream on an arduous walk for water. Beneath church steeples and leaking roofs and a brilliant sun.