The Israel Defence Forces have begun a ground incursion on the Gaza Strip.

In nbsp comments nbsp in a university hall in Molise an agricultural and industrial region in southern Italy on July 5 Pope Francis offered more evidence that he intends a serious challenge Pope Benedict 39 s standing as the quot green pope quot Speaking before a group of students struggling

Bishop Eusebio Elizondo auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops rsquo Committee on Migration called upon the Obama Administration on July 2 to reconsider its request to Congress for ldquo fast track rdquo authority to expedite the removal of unaccompa

The U S bishops conference said ldquo justice has prevailed rdquo in its reaction to today rsquo s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties ldquo We welcome the Supreme Court rsquo s decision to recognize that Americans can continue to follow their fait

A new development model seeks to turn the power of the market economy to social good.

In a report released June 23 the Associated Press expanded on the corrections it issued on June 20 after America asked an AP media representative to respond to apparent inaccuracies in its reporting on the scandal swirling around the dispostion of deceased residents of a mothers and babies home in

After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and

ldquo Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities also denied a Christian burial rdquo It is a sentence unattributed to any source which repeats mdash either word for word or in a close approximation mdash in hu

It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were but two days ago they did Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL apparently at the time only lightly armed swept through Mosul Iraq rsquo s second largest city

Immigration worries are back in the headlines after a sudden flurry of media attention to what has been a slowly building humanitarian catastrophe the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors reaching the U S southern border some as young as 5 and 6 after a perilous crossing through Mexico fro