If we really want to scale back our reliance on prison, we need to change how we approach violence, and most people—politicians, reformers, the public—seem unwilling to do this.

Several Mideast-based Christians working on the Syria crisis have joined a growing chorus about U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull some 2,000 American troops from Syria.

Congo is preparing for a crucial vote to elect a successor for President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since 2001.

Ms. Morais’s death is a notorious example of an everyday horror in Brazil and other Latin American states: the crime of femicide. In 2017 at least 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In a statement issued on December 18, 2018, Greg Schleppenbach, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, decried the epousal by Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, of using fetal tissue from aborted babies for use in medical research.

In a statement issued on December 18, 2018, the U.S. bishops' committee on migration said that the death of the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl trying to enter the United States with her father was a "jarring disruption of the natural order of life" and urged a reexamination of "our failed immigration policies."