The Mayan human rights activist Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez of Guatemala is the winner of Japan’s Niwano Peace Prize.

A World Bank report offers rare good news on global poverty. But is it cause for celebration?

Discussing or promoting military options [in Iran] at this time is unwise and may be counterproductive,”  said Bishop Richard E. Pates.

The head of Banghazi's diminished Catholic community spoke of a need to rebuild his congregation and of the uncertainties ahead.

Outside the White House on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, members of the Catholic Worker demonstrated for repentance and conversion of “ourselves, our society and our churches to the Gospel way of justice."

Thousands of children are forced every day to serve in armed gangs or armies as combatants, spies or in sexual servitude.