Opening today in Solino is Celtic Park Haiti, described as “a top-notch soccer facility on the grounds of what was once a makeshift camp for people displaced by the Haiti earthquake.”

What has been described as the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II reached a crescendo in early September as thousands of people fleeing Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern calamity zones piled up against hastily erected barricades on the outskirts of Europe. But European sentiment,

Pope Francis has been interested in finding some way to deal with the problem of divorced and remarried Catholics and restoring them to the full sacramental life of the church. Streamlining the annulment process has been among the strong suggestions of a number of Catholic cardinals and bishops from around the world.

Thousands of people fleeing Middle East calamity zones are piling up at barricades on the borders of Europe.

"Borders are killing people," said Jesuit Refugee Service Europe director Jean-Marie Carrière.

Images of drowned babies washing ashore in Libya have circulated widely.

A meeting in Cuba with FARC offers some risks for Pope Francis, but his intervention—and blessing on the outcome of the peace process in Colombia—could be just the push negotiators need to finish the job and bring in an end to a conflict that has smoldered since 1964.

In the early days of August 2014, as the summer heat scorched the plains of Nineveh, Islamic State militants began ethnic cleansing around the city of Sinjar, driving thousands among the province’s Yazidi, Christian and other religious and ethnic minority communities from their homes in just a

South Africa ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007.

There was more evidence of a Francis Effect on religious leadership today with the release of a declaration on climate change meant “to engage the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims on the issue of our time.”