Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator's study of American religious life.

 “They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden," said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Spain's National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.

The burning and looting of the disputed town of Abyei in central Sudan has been condemned by the United Nations.

The bishops called for government action in the wake of the slaying of 27 workers on a farm owned by an alleged drug kingpin.