More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.
India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.
The government of Sudan has continued a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, harassment and starvation against the Nuba people in South Kordofan Province.
A call for reform and an end to violence on both sides.
A priest who was removed from his parish for improvising prayers during the celebration of Mass has now been suspended from all other priestly duties.
A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom.
Forty-four percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in “the church or organized religion” today.
"We have only one land, and we must protect her. So, we will march to say no to the balkanization of the country."
Conditions deteriorate for Christians in Syria—and for everyone else—as fighting and bloodshed grow wider.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone called for free universal access to AIDS drugs and therapy and insisted this begin by giving antiretroviral drugs to H.I.V.-positive pregnant women.