Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and the ...

Relatives say if King Baudouin were to be recognized as a saint, they would want for him to be an example for all heads of ...

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall ... decisions of his father, Leopold III, during World War II. “He suffered a lot because ...

It was the biggest royal wedding Europe had seen since Britain’s Elizabeth married the nephew of Constantine, onetime King of Greece ... during World War II; as a result Leopold felt compelled ...

There Berlin conference it was a series of meetings called by chancellor of theGerman Empire, Otto von Bismarckfollowing the ...

Up until his death in July 1993 at the age of ... especially unborn children, St. John Paul II described the fifth king of Belgium as a “great guardian of the rights of the human conscience.” ...

President Paul Kagame has reacted to the Roman Catholic Church's decision to begin the beatification process for King Baudouin of Belgium ... a grand nephew of Leopold II, who is infamously ...

Hochschild estimates that as many as ten million people—half the population of Congo—died in the forced labour system used to tap wild rubber for King Leopold II’s companies at the height ... upon ...

given the Belgian church’s wretched legacy of clergy sexual abuse. Baudouin became king after the abdication of his father, King Leopold. He abdicated for a day in 1990 rather than give his ...

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I was very angry. I was astonished. Everything I saw was stolen,” said François Kamate, an environmental activist from the ...