The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?”

'American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.

Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of what he described as a “sign of utter disrespect for human life” perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck through crowds celebrating the New Year.

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror organization by the U.S. State Department.

We’re now halfway through the four weeks of the second session of the Synod on Synodality. And a fair question to ask is: What have we done?

Is it possible to be a contemplative caretaker?

Not long after Pope Francis left Indonesia, authorities there announced they had arrested seven people for making online “terror threats” against the pope.

It is my duty to assist those in need.

A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

The display at the Olympics was not innocent fun gone too far or Europeans just being artsy. It was bullying a minority.