Nearly 2.5 million refugees are now scattered in camps in states bordering Syria.

The Rev. Scott Deeley, assistant chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, said that while the church “won’t be telling people how to vote” in the fall 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, “some bishops have indicated unofficially they’d have no p

“The whole country is in shock," a spokesman for the country's bishops said.

A national board reported "progress in developing robust safeguarding structures.”

The process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain archbishop has been “unblocked.”

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised an investigation after heavy fighting in Baga.