Inhabitants of low-lying islands across the Pacific know climate change is very real if rising sea levels are any indication.

Vatican cautions that the successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated.

The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”

Advocates for Haitian peasants said the company's donation of hybrid vegetable seeds will harm the island-nation's agriculture.

The bishop's driver was arrested as the prime suspect in the murder and confessed, Vatican Radio said.

Instead of quelling the violence in the border community in Mexico, the posting of troops and federal police officers has only accelerated the bloodletting.