Dozens of churches in Indonesia come under attack every year, and the country’s president is failing to take action to stop it, a Catholic activist says.

The Rev. Alois Andritzki, a German priest who was killed by lethal injection at Dachau, was beatified on June 13 in a service at Dresden Cathedral.

An official at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently urged the United States to maintain its role as a global leader in refugee protection.

Structural discrimination and a steady increase in violence in Pakistan are creating a system of two-tiered citizenship, one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims.

For the first time, an international meeting of bishops’ representatives heard testimony from a survivor of clergy sexual abuse.