Access to water is just one small part of the complex of political and structural discord between Israelis and the Palestinians.

Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.

New laws may help keep Wall Street in line, but what's next?

“All of the musical settings need to be rewritten,” said Annette Wright, a director of music from Ray Township, Mich.

The campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim community center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks is emblematic of an “Islamophobia," John L. Esposito said.

Palestinians learn nonviolence to resist Israeli occupation.

In a statement dated July 12, Cardinal Roger Mahony cited five areas of commonality.

Two weeks after the government of Peru threatened to expel Paul McAuley, a La Salle brother and British missionary known for his environmental defense work, the president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference expressed his “full support for the…[country’s] missionaries in their work of evangelization.”

In June, the court voted to uphold a federal law that makes it a crime knowingly to provide “material support” to organizations designated as foreign terrorist groups.

Venezuela's Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino butts heads—again—with President Hugo Chavez.