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When Pope Benedict XVI stepped off the plane in Beirut on Sept. 14, he said he had come to Lebanon as a “pilgrim of peace.”
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.
About 3,000 students at Fordham University cheered as the comedian Stephen Colbert joined Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and James Martin, S.J., in a discussion of faith, humor and spirituality.
Reality intruded darkly on a symposium on religious liberty in Washington when news alerts reported the killing of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
The Missouri Legislature voted to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill meant to prevent employers or health insurance providers from being compelled to provide coverage for contraception, abortion or sterilization.