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.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga called young people between 18 and 24 “an amazing pool of talent we must tap into if we are to relieve poverty in our lifetime.”
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.
A new study notes an uptick on social intolerance and government restrictions on religion around the world and in the United States between 2009 and mid-2010.