The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference denied reports that he threatened to excommunicate the president over his proposal to distribute contraceptives.

In Latin America, women hold only one-third of top-level jobs.

The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel H. Díaz, said on Oct. 5 that human migration should be accepted as both a Christian and a political duty.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.

International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.

Christians remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim society as King Abdullah II remains a guarantor of their security.

The two Ugandan bishops argued that dialogue with the Lord’s Resistance Army would work better than a military option against it.