Is Burma beginning to emerge from the political darkness of its recent past?

With the violence across North Africa and the Arab world, hundreds of  lone boys from the Middle East are making their way across Europe.

Francesco Zanardi arrived at the Vatican on Oct. 10 after walking almost 350 miles to deliver a letter to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to meet Italian victims of clerical abuse.

Condemning an attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI said that all its citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities.

In 2010, more than 1,000 priests were victims of extortion, 162 were threatened with death and two were kidnapped and killed.

What started as a small demonstration to protest corporate influence over public policy may now be close to becoming a national movement.