Christian organizations raise their voices on the best way to protect the poor and refuce the national debt.

On July 9, South Sudan officially broke free of the north and became the world’s newest independent state.

The report, The Changing Face of U.S. Catholic Parishes, tracks trends in U.S. Catholic parish life during the last decade.

An investigation by a government panel suggests a continuing failure of the Irish church to implement its own child protection procedures.

On July 19 Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Justin Rigali of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and named Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., of Denver to succeed him.

The bishop of Toledo, Ohio, has prohibited parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which conducts breast cancer research

It was the third episcopal ordination this year arranged by China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs that had not received papal approval.

The Indian bishops spoke a day after three bombs in Mumbai left at least 17 people dead and more than 140 injured.

One 15-year-old had grown so accustomed to the war raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance scattered on the ground in his neighborhood.

Pope Benedict opened a new Vatican Internet news portal with the first-ever papal tweet on June 28.