A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologized for a police raid that interrupted a Mass in Michoaca.
Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was "a woman of ardent faith and generous public service" said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.
A lack of will and finger pointing have contributed to the international community’s failure to stop present-day mass violence.
The local archbishop welcomed the prison sentences a court has given to five people convicted of taking part in the August 2008 anti-Christian violence in Orissa.