Shared concerns over violence among Mexico’s drug gangs were discussed by bishops from dioceses along the Texas-Mexico border.

Why has the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis been prevented from applying for a second term of office?

Southern Africa’s bishops warned elections would be “dangerously premature” if held this year.

“There is a better understanding of religion in Cuba,” said the archbishop of Santiago, Cuba. “But it’s not easy; it is a process.”

Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X said that reconciliation talks would soon end with little change in the views of either side.

Church leaders around the world expressed their distress at the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minorities.