The Vatican newspaper, LOsservatore Romano, editorialized that President Barack Obama has operated in most areas with more caution than predicted.

A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government is refusing to let noncombatants leave the combat zone.

After years of underrepresentation, African-American Catholics have apparently regained a proportional representation among those being ordained.

Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E

The visit is considered a new horizon of collaboration between Muslims and Christians, not only in Jordan, but in all the world.

AIDS and H.I.V. need to be our national priority," said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg