The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.
Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.
During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.
More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.
India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.
A call for reform and an end to violence on both sides.