The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is hopeful that schools will reopen soon for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels.

In his usual weekly audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, Pope Francis gave a ride in the popemobile to eight migrant Libyan children who recently arrived in Italy. The pope made this public gesture as an act of solidarity with those who are on society's margins.

Although the Supreme Court justices chose not to take up two petitions for review submitted by death-row inmates from Alabama and Tennessee May 13, they didn't do so with a simple one-sentence rejection.

Solitary confinement is in widespread use in prisons across the United States and, in New York state alone, more than 3,000 inmates are isolated in 6-by-10 cells for over 23 hours a day.

An Islamic militant has posted a video on the internet boasting that he has arrived in Canada to kill Asia Bibi.

A lawsuit against the Vatican was filed on behalf of five men in Minneapolis who were sexually abused by priests when they were minors. The lawsuit calls for the Vatican to release the names of every priest who abused minors and admit engaging in a massive cover-up.