Clerical sexual abuse has provoked repugnance throughout the church, said a recently appointed Vatican official.

A new U.S. initiative seeks to make some amends for the widespread use of defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.

One passenger was killed, the other seriously injured when the car crashed in California.

A generation after the end of the cold war, the Initiative proposes redirecting resources saved by nuclear arms reductions toward peace-building.

Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.

Access to water is just one small part of the complex of political and structural discord between Israelis and the Palestinians.