Nobel Peace Price-winner Wangari Maatthai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya, died on Sept. 25.

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.

A delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders hope that their visit to Iran will improve relations between the two squabbling countries.

In  2010, 15.1 percent of Americans—46.2 million people, an all-time high—were living in poverty.

The U.S. bishops have asked preists to address “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”