The United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS nbsp issued a statement on April 21 that quot strongly condemns the targeted killings of civilians based on their ethnic origins and nationality in Bentiu quot South Sudan nbsp The statement continued quot UNMISS also strongly condemns the use

Dear Brothers and Sisters a Happy and Holy Easter The Church throughout the world echoes the angel rsquo s message to the women ldquo Do not be afraid I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified He is not here for he has been raised hellip Come see the place where he lay rdquo

In an annual tradition Thirteen Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem have issued the following hopeful Easter message this year highlighting the importance of peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land We the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem bring joyous greetings in the name

Leaks from an executive summary of a five-year Senate investigation into controversial CIA detention and interrogation techniques have called into further question the already controversial use of “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Revelations from the summary leaked so far suggest tha

State visits are usually occasions of pomp and circumstance signifying little. That was not true, however, of the recent formal introduction of President Michael Higgins of Ireland to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. During the president’s historic four-day visit, from April 8 to 12,

At this morning 39 s White House Easter prayer breakfast President Obama talked of yesterday 39 s shooting incidents in Kansas City this sudden example of the ferocity of anti-Semtitism and the necessity of Americans to be free of fear of such gun violence particulalry in places of worhsip He

Barbara Dorris Outreach Director of SNAP the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests remains skeptical of Pope Francis on the question of episcopal accountability for sex abuse crimes In a response to the pope 39 s apparently off-the-cuff comments in Rome words of contrition taking respons

A new reminder of the precariousness of conditions in Lebanon because of the Syria crisis comes from the new president of Caritas Lebanon Maronite Father Paul Karam He urges the international community to step in to assume the responsibility of establishing and maintaining refugee camps for those

Pope Francis offered more evidence today of his commitment to Vatican II era collegiality In a letter posted by the Vatican news service the pope announced today that he was elevating the position of the nbsp undersecretary of the synod secretariat to the episcopacy to demonstrate that quot we ca

The number of refugees fleeing from Syria into neighboring Lebanon passed the 1 million mark on April 3, according to U.N. officials, a bleak milestone exacerbated by rapidly depleting social resources and a host community stretched to the breaking point. Just over three years after Syria’s co