The Mayan human rights activist Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez of Guatemala is the winner of Japan’s Niwano Peace Prize.

A World Bank report offers rare good news on global poverty. But is it cause for celebration?

Discussing or promoting military options [in Iran] at this time is unwise and may be counterproductive,”  said Bishop Richard E. Pates.

Progress was unexpectedly made in January and February in reducing tensions with a charter member of the “axis of evil.”

As many as 30 people have been killed in violence related to the Koran burnings.

“Dear friends of the United States, Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence that we’re suffering,” President Felipe Calderón said.

Famine and state-building in Somalia is a top priority for the new Caritas Internationalis secretary general, Michel Roy.

The city of Homs has now endured almost four weeks of Syrian army attacks with artillery and heavy weapons.

The head of Banghazi's diminished Catholic community spoke of a need to rebuild his congregation and of the uncertainties ahead.

Outside the White House on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, members of the Catholic Worker demonstrated for repentance and conversion of “ourselves, our society and our churches to the Gospel way of justice."