Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.

The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”

The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.

As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.