The ongoing drought and famine afflicting Somalia and other East African nations is "a humanitarian crisis that cries out for help to Christians throughout the world."

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.

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.

A coalition of religious investors wants officials at 27 major U.S. companies to look deeper into the role human trafficking may play in the operation of their firms.

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.