The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”

The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.

As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said "restorative justice is not cheap justice."

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.