U.S. bishops object to House proposals for food assistance cuts.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone called for free universal access to AIDS drugs and therapy and insisted this begin by giving antiretroviral drugs to H.I.V.-positive pregnant women.
The economic downturn that has been a hardship for Americans has had a greater impact on the elderly in Cuba, who increasingly struggle to fend for themselves.
In Belfast on June 27, Queen Elizabeth of Britain shook hands with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander.
The U.S. bishops' conference urged changes on abortion funding, conscience protection and immigrants’ access to health care.
Aid agencies from the Catholic church join the effort to respond to widespread flooding in India's Assam state.
Earthquakes, oppression, floods and famine are just some of the targets of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network.