Catholics in North Africa say that the Vatican does not seem to recognize that they face different challenges than sub-Saharan Africa.

Maria Odom, an immigration attorney in Georgia, has been named executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

The bishops of Nigeria blame government inaction for the death of more than 2,000 people during a recent uprising by an extremist Islamic group.

On the eve of the opening of the 64th General Assembly, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan said the U.N. should embrace the notion of “the human person as the heart of all institutions."

Nearly two years after a controversial presidential election prompted widespread violence, Kenya remains a country on the brink of crisis.

The official lamented that producing urgently needed medicines is no longer driven by traditional medical ethics, but by money.