The coast of Louisiana is off limits to its own residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said that requiring personnel in military hospitals to perform abortions would place "a very heavy burden" on those who value human life.

Women refugees are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses in cases where they have been forced to leave their homes.

Manoj Pradhan, a leader of anti-Christian violence that rocked India’s eastern Orissa state in 2008, was convicted of murder on June 29.

A $7.3 billion pledge is not enough to stop millions of needless deaths and not enough for the G-8 leaders to say they've lived up to their responsibilities.

An independent research group said the leading industrial nations complied with a little more than half of the promises made in 2009.

A lower court ruled that an Oregon man could try to hold the Vatican financially responsible for his sexual abuse by a priest. 

The investigators are looking at contracts Cardinal Sepe made with government officials while he was head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Gubernatorial front-runner Rodolfo Torre Cantu was gunned down along with four others 200 miles south of the Texas border.

Pope Benedict said that the upcoming Synod on the Middle East would “highlight the important value of the Christian presence and witness in the biblical lands.”