The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.

International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

Christians remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim society as King Abdullah II remains a guarantor of their security.