In Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on July 11, the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces at Srebrenica, the bodies of 520 recently identified victims were buried.

Vatican official says a new arms trade treaty "must establish mechanisms to curtail irresponsible and destabilizing arms transfers."

During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.

More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.

India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.

A call for reform and an end to violence on both sides.