New York's proposed Islamic center could become a powerful symbol of tolerance or a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.

The 800-member Catholic community in a village in India is facing a “social boycott” for refusing to follow traditions to appease Hindus gods.

“I am absolutely overwhelmed at the response of people for their church,” Davenport’s Bishop Martin J. Amos said.

“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran encouraged Catholics and Muslims to work together in overcoming violence among followers of different religions