France’s Catholic bishops have urged citizens to accept the fact that their country is no longer culturally homogeneous.

Commenting on elections planned for Nov. 28, the Coptic bishop of Luxor said that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood were among the most organized political groups.

Archbishop José H. Gómez applauded the recent government announcement that prosecutorial discretion would be exercised on “low-priority” deportation cases.

Somali children are the victims most affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.

On his first state visit to his German homeland, Pope Benedict XVI warned that godlessness and religious indifference were undermining the moral foundations of society.

Chaplains from faiths morally opposed to homosexual behavior fear they will be “marginalized and even punished” for being true to their faith.