An influential U.N. committee charges that the windows violate children’s rights.

Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.

An ecumenical campaign to halt gun violence issued a call for background checks.

“People are hiding in their homes, unable to venture out.”

Msgr. Francis D. Kelly, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester, Mass., was installed on Jan. 20 as a canon of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, becoming the first U.S.-born canon in almost 50 years. • Anti-abortion groups from 20 different countries launched a petition in January to

Among the disasters that mark the war can be added the destruction of the environment.