The California Catholic bishops’ conference alerts parents of public school children of ways to “opt out” of classes that contradict their family’s values.

The U.K.’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien accuses the BBC of institutional bias against “Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.”

The pastoral letter from Mexico's bishops addresses centuries-old divisions over ethnicity and the often strained relationship between church and state.

Local NGO's report that inhabitants of a Christian village were killed when floodwaters were diverted into their community.

New talks between Israel and Palestine, despite obstacles, remain a source of hope.

A visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to a church in China is not a sign that the secretive communist regime’s stance toward religion is softening.