The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Vatican tribunal has declared it had no jurisdiction to put two journalists on trial for publishing confidential documents.

Zimbabwe is "undergoing a very difficult patch, economically, socially, politically and spiritually," church leaders said.

"I think all the churches want to save this church because here Jesus was born," Giammarco Piacenti said.

"I made the mistake of being too trusting," the archbishop wrote in a letter.

The basic questions are: Who is in need of God's mercy and how does that mercy reach people, he said. The answer is that all people "are called to beg for mercy, to desire conversion."