A new report says the United States must broaden its view of the role of religion in other countries beyond counterterrorism strategies.

“We can’t let our world food and energy prices be determined by the whims of investors,” said Maryknoll's David Kane.

The apologies reflect General Stanley McChrystal’s new strategy that prioritizes winning over the civilian population.

A Vatican statement said that church leaders recognized the sense of “pain and anger, betrayal, scandal and shame” that the crisis provoked.

Catholic Relief Services’ anti-hunger programs during 2008 helped an estimated 49.3 million people.

Homelessness appears to be making a comeback, but not in the urban and rural communities where it persisted in past decades.