One 15-year-old had grown so accustomed to the war raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance scattered on the ground in his neighborhood.
The Indian bishops spoke a day after three bombs in Mumbai left at least 17 people dead and more than 140 injured.
Pope Benedict opened a new Vatican Internet news portal with the first-ever papal tweet on June 28.
The bishops said that true definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman “cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs...will continue to be ridiculed."
Tunisia's tiny Catholic community prays for the country's transition to democracy and hopes that the nation will embrace full religious freedom.
A coalition of religious investors wants officials at 27 major U.S. companies to look deeper into the role human trafficking may play in the operation of their firms.