“We have seen escalating violence, brutal crackdowns and tremendous suffering by the Syrian people,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Anne Nolte, M.D., said that Catholic hospitals might have to decide whether to "practice civil disobedience.”

Hundreds are dead after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.

The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep.

Cardinal Roger Mahony hopes that today’s young people will bring about a change in immigration policy.

After the new cardinals are created, all the “princes of the church” are scheduled to vote on the canonization of several new saints.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution.

“We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law,” declared Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix in a diocesan letter.

The media report alleges that the former general of the commission that governs Vatican City discovered “chaotic management” and overspending.

"Beit Arabiya,” the home of a Palestinian couple, was demolished by Israeli authorities on Jan. 23 for the fifth time since 1994.