"Killing the criminal does not bring justice to the victims," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said.

"I know that my son died for a cause," Vivian Carr told a standing-room-only crowd at the church.

If the peace accord is accepted, the estimated 7,000 FARC fighters would have to turn over their weapons.

The only major relic of the saint to leave Italy is visiting Boston.

Middle East Christians are "being erased from their homelands, probably in all of our lifetimes," said Elizabeth Prodromou of the Center for American Progress.

The Supreme Court not running at full capacity has something to do with the hold-up.