Thomas P. Gaunt, S.J., was named executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

Baghdad residents were still trying to make sense out of an orgy of violence at the city’s Syriac Catholic cathedral on Oct. 31.

The State Department made it clear that it wants the independence vote in south Sudan set for January 2011 to be held as scheduled.

Millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions have been destroyed years ahead of deadlines mandated by an August 2010 treaty.

A tsunami followed by a volcano eruption in Indonesia claimed more than 400 lives and displaced thousands.

A report from prominent British medical and legal experts claims that Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act is being abused.