The coalition has used demonstrations and sometimes consumer boycotts to pressure the five largest fast-food companies—Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell—into joining its "fair food program."

"The very future of the ancient Christian presence in the Middle East is at stake," Archbishop Kurtz said.

"The fact is that Sunday can be seen as a watershed moment, which frightens the government [and] pressures Congress."

"A new and disturbing pattern of violations against children's rights has emerged in the conflict" as youngsters have been killed and maimed, boys under age 15 have been forced into active combat, while still others have been exposed to siege and starvation.

“Our nation seems to have lost a sense of the importance of cultivating friendships as fellow citizens who, being equal, share much in common,” Archbishop Blase Cupich said in a homily on March 12 at Old St. Patrick’s Church.

Report notes "reasonable grounds" to consider that crimes against humanity had been committed