Somali children are the victims most affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.
The statement does include a new introduction warning that the document “has at times been misused to present an incomplete or distorted view of the demands of faith in politics.”
Eighteen Catholic colleges asked the Obama administration to broaden the religious exemption offered within new guidelines on women’s health.
“Healing a Broken World” calls on Jesuits and their collaborators to “cast a grateful look on creation, letting our heart be touched by its wounded reality."
A Vatican representative called for “courageous decisions” after Palestinian leaders appealed for statehood.
Perhaps in response to social unrest, executions in Iran have spiked this year, with more than 320 tallied by the end of June.