New York's proposed Islamic center could become a powerful symbol of tolerance or a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.
The 800-member Catholic community in a village in India is facing a “social boycott” for refusing to follow traditions to appease Hindus gods.
“I am absolutely overwhelmed at the response of people for their church,” Davenport’s Bishop Martin J. Amos said.
As France continues its campaign to expel foreign-born Roma, Pope Benedict XVI called on Aug. 22 for greater acceptance of cultural differences and urged parents to teach their children “universal fraternity.”
The California Catholic bishops’ conference alerts parents of public school children of ways to “opt out” of classes that contradict their family’s values.
The U.K.’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien accuses the BBC of institutional bias against “Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.”