Women's religious orders from Indiana and Michigan are working to stop sex trafficking at this year's Super Bowl.
The bishops of the Philippines are seeking funding for the construction of 1,000 houses for the victims of flooding.
An emergency decree came in response to four days of bombing attacks around Christmas that killed and wounded hundreds.
Two years later the recovery continues from a devastating earthquake.
Leading politicians in the Netherlands have called for the resignations in the wake of a damning report on sexual abuse in the Dutch church.
For decades the U.S. bishops have supported a decent minimum wage for U.S. workers in keeping with church teaching on a just wage.
In the midst of famine crises, the experiences of the hungry in Nairobi and in other urban centers in the Horn of Africa have been ignored.