The scorched head of Mary is all that remains of the Nagasaki cathedral destroyed by the atomic bomb.

“You also can’t underestimate the value of pastoral presence,” said Gordon Wage of Catholic Charities.

At least four people died when buses carrying Christian university students was bombed near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries.

More than 3,500 attended the first traditional Latin Mass in decades at the National Shrine.

An election victory for Iraq’s more secular parties is not tempting Iraqi Christian refugees to return home,