Drenching rains already are turning tent camps outside Port-au-Prince into muddy quagmires.

The Iraqi Council of Christian Church Leaders was pleased with the level of public participation in the recent elections.

Palestinians are frustrated by excessive presence of Israeli police and numerous barricades during Holy Week.

A German-born bishop who headed a prelature in Norway admitted that his resignation last year was linked to the sexual abuse of a minor.

The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.