More than 40,000 people from 41 countries gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

Pope Benedict XVI’s brief visit to Latin America ended in Cuba after a private meeting with the aging former President Fidel Castro.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Arizona v. United States.

On March 20 the Vatican released a summary of the findings and recommendations of its offical visitation to Ireland.

Three people were killed as thousands packed St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, to pay their respects to Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Syrian Orthodox Church alleges that militant armed Islamists have managed to expel 90 percent of Christians from Homs.