Somali children are the victims most affected by the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.

 “Healing a Broken World” calls on Jesuits and their collaborators to “cast a grateful look on creation, letting our heart be touched by its wounded reality."

A Vatican representative called for “courageous decisions” after Palestinian leaders appealed for statehood.

Perhaps in response to social unrest, executions in Iran have spiked this year, with more than 320 tallied by the end of June.

Nobel Peace Price-winner Wangari Maatthai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya, died on Sept. 25.

On his first state visit to his German homeland, Pope Benedict XVI warned that godlessness and religious indifference were undermining the moral foundations of society.