Amnesty International has documented numerous human rights abuses attributed to Congolese fighters, including unlawful killings.
There is a pile of unfinished business from 2012 and the nation’s looming “fiscal cliff” to step back from.
Bishop-designate William Crean, appointed on Nov. 24 to Ireland’s Diocese of Cloyne, vowed he would make a priority of healing the pain caused by the sexual abuse scandal.
The Vatican praised a U.N. vote making Palestine a nonmember observer state but called for full recognition of Palestinian sovereignty as necessary for peace in the region.
A high-ranking Vatican official from China says he does not expect much to change in church-state relations with the new Chinese government.
Speaking on the day before World AIDS Day, Pope Benedict XVI called for special attention to those unable to afford life-saving H.I.V./AIDS drugs.
My sharpest memory from Cairo is what my driver said: 'Christ is testing us.'