Aid agencies from the Catholic church join the effort to respond to widespread flooding in India's Assam state.

“Nuns on the Bus: Nuns Drive for Faith, Family and Fairness” is sponsored by Network, a Catholic social justice lobby based in Washington, D.C.

U.S. bishops object to House proposals for food assistance cuts.

The U.S. bishops' conference urged changes on abortion funding, conscience protection and immigrants’ access to health care.

The economic downturn that has been a hardship for Americans has had a greater impact on the elderly in Cuba, who increasingly struggle to fend for themselves.

Earthquakes, oppression, floods and famine are just some of the targets of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network.

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.

As the international community looks for ways to protect the environment while promoting development, it must keep the  the protection of human dignity as its central goal.

Leaders from Russia and Poland will issue a joint statement committing their churches to reconciliation between the two historically feuding countries.