According to one report, women there are almost 50 percent more likely than men to contract the disease.

The first days of deferred deportation for some young adults brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country. 

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.

Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.

Catholic Relief Services said that its decision to allocate funding to the humanitarian organization CARE under a U.S. grant did not violate Catholic teaching.

One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.