Caritas Spain urged the Spanish government to consider the “sinister concrete implications” of the country’s economic crisis.
In just over two decades Niger has cut its rate of infant mortality in half, highlighting the benefits of universal free health care.
The German bishops’ conference defended a decree that said Catholics who stop paying a church membership tax cannot receive sacraments.
There are few issues in the 2012 presidential campaign on which the major candidates have more clearly differentiated opinions.