Mollie Tibbetts's life was celebrated during a memorial Mass Aug. 26.

The longtime Arizona Republican senator, reared in the Episcopal Church, attended a Southern Baptist megachurch in his later years. He viewed himself as a Christian but had “a distrust of the religious right and a faith that is too public, too political.”

Although Latin America has advanced since a 1968 church conference first declared a "preferential option for the poor," a number of troubling signs threaten the progress made, both socially and religiously.

A Roman Catholic priest who was one of the earliest critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on drugs has gone into hiding due to what he says were signs he's being targeted by motorcycle-riding hitmen.

Never sacrifice your dignity or integrity for short-term gain.

The arrest of a Mexican farmworker in the death of an Iowa college student renewed calls to change immigration laws, but it also focused attention on the immigrant workers whose labor is essential to the state's agricultural industry.