What started as a small demonstration to protest corporate influence over public policy may now be close to becoming a national movement.
A stark reflection of the poor state of religious freedom 10 years after the United States overthrew the Islamist Taliban regime.
Condemning an attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI said that all its citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities.
In 2010, more than 1,000 priests were victims of extortion, 162 were threatened with death and two were kidnapped and killed.
With the violence across North Africa and the Arab world, hundreds of lone boys from the Middle East are making their way across Europe.
Francesco Zanardi arrived at the Vatican on Oct. 10 after walking almost 350 miles to deliver a letter to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to meet Italian victims of clerical abuse.