Many people who fled the country during the war have returned, although they struggle to survive amid a shattered economy.

“Climate change is another situation where the poor of the world are being made to suffe because of the habits of the first world,” said Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland.

Catholics in North Africa say that the Vatican does not seem to recognize that they face different challenges than sub-Saharan Africa.

Maria Odom, an immigration attorney in Georgia, has been named executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

A groundbreaking survey of “religious activists” has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious.

Bishop Luis Santos Villeda said that dialogue is important to avoid the possibility of civil war.