Hundreds of thousands of Coptic Christians have emigrated since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
In every region of the country, death sentences have declined, which eventually will affect the number of executions.
A Vatican official said that World AIDS Day is “a privileged moment to relaunch the fight against social prejudice.”
"For millions of American workers and their families, economic hardship continues and grows," said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.
Climate change is a faith issue because it deals with God's creation and with poverty, said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa.
The disputed report claims that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops spent $26.6 million in 2009 on advocacy and outreach.
Congress must find ways to continue unemployment compensation to protect jobless workers and their families, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.