In Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on July 11, the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces at Srebrenica, the bodies of 520 recently identified victims were buried.
The government of Sudan has continued a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, harassment and starvation against the Nuba people in South Kordofan Province.
Vatican official says a new arms trade treaty "must establish mechanisms to curtail irresponsible and destabilizing arms transfers."
A priest who was removed from his parish for improvising prayers during the celebration of Mass has now been suspended from all other priestly duties.
During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.
A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom.
More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.