The Vatican forcefully denied undermining efforts by Irish bishops to protect children from sexual abuse.
Zhang Qingli, the Communist Party official who was in charge of Tibet during the crackdown on Buddhist protesters in 2008, is now the new party chief in Hebei.
A brief report from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate offers some statistics worth worrying over.
“The economic recession of the past few years effectively wiped out all of the gains we made in cutting child poverty in the late 1990s.”