Msgr. Romulo Sánchez has begun a dialogue with the country's main criminal gangs.

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised an investigation after heavy fighting in Baga.

A Vatican-convoked commission of doctors concluded that a healing attributed to Blessed John Paul II had no natural explanation, a finding that could clear the way for the canonization of the pope. • U.S. Army Chaplain Stephen McDermott was awarded the Bronze Star in April for his service in Af

A Philadelphia judge dismissed three of eight murder charges on April 23 in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist accused of killing infants who had been born alive at his abortion clinic. Gosnell was arrested in January 2011 and charged with seven counts of infanticide and one

“The whole country is in shock," a spokesman for the country's bishops said.

A national board reported "progress in developing robust safeguarding structures.”