Pope Benedict opened a new Vatican Internet news portal with the first-ever papal tweet on June 28.
Faith leaders say they will devote time during or after worship services to explaining the legislation.
A source from the Catholic Diocese of Banmaw claimed that the Burmese government “does nothing to help civilian refugees."
Tunisia's tiny Catholic community prays for the country's transition to democracy and hopes that the nation will embrace full religious freedom.
Catholic bishops of the North and Central America cited "those searching for work, asylum-seekers, refugees and victims of human trafficking.”
The U.S. bishops declared suicide “a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent.”
A referendum in Italy has spotlighted an emerging social justice issue: access to safe water as a basic human right.
Dozens of churches in Indonesia come under attack every year, and the country’s president is failing to take action to stop it, a Catholic activist says.
The Rev. Alois Andritzki, a German priest who was killed by lethal injection at Dachau, was beatified on June 13 in a service at Dresden Cathedral.
