As the United Nations reported that 480,000 people have fled after months of fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province, suicide bombings and clashes between security forces and militants killed 36 people on May 30. • Security forces in Afghanistan on June 6 were questioning three Taliban members

The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation voted in early June to encourage the ldquo lifting of the restrictions regarding the ordination of married men to the priesthood in the Eastern Catholic Churches of North America rdquo ldquo This action would affirm the ancient and leg

Many cannot afford protections to shield them from extreme forces of nature.

South Sudan’s religious congregations urged the country’s political leaders to ensure that the latest peace agreement holds, and they condemned the atrocities and violence carried out by both government forces and rebel groups over the past five months. “Too much blood has been she

Nations singled out for deteriorating records on religious liberty.

Thousands around the world have appealed for the freedom of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for “apostasy” because she converted to Christianity when she married a Christan. • “No investigation of a criminal nature is being conducted…i

Anytime there are misunderstandings, errors or problems concerning religious orders, dialogue is the best way to deal with the situation, said the head of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders. “At times there are things that either may not have been understood or

A botched three-drug lethal injection protocol left inmate showing signs of pain.

Fifty-five percent of all U.S. Catholics under the age of 30 are Hispanic.

Cardinal rebukes L.C.W.R.'s futuristic ideas as “opposed to Christian revelation.”