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Forty-four percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in “the church or organized religion” today.

More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.

A priest who was removed from his parish for improvising prayers during the celebration of Mass has now been suspended from all other priestly duties.

In Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on July 11, the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces at Srebrenica, the bodies of 520 recently identified victims were buried.

India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.

A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom. 

Vatican official says a new arms trade treaty "must establish mechanisms to curtail irresponsible and destabilizing arms transfers."