Group demands inquiry into which French companies had purchased 'terrorist petrol'

Egypt's Catholic Church has pledged respect for the country's justice authorities after a deposed Islamist president was sentenced to death for alleged complicity in a planned jail break."After long deliberations, the Catholic Church has declared itself against the death penalty in gene

A Russian church official said the bishops' conference is studying the implications of a new government law tightening control over the funding of churches and religious associations."What matters in Russia isn't what the laws say, but how they're interpreted and applied by local of

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Catholic officials in Latvia are trying to stay out of the region's ideological war with neighboring Russia."Latvia is home to a large Russian population and there are Russian-speakers in the Catholic Church. We're sensitive to historical animosities here, which could be reignited and u

Catholic leaders condemned "racism and xenophobia" in Europe and urged religious communities to speak out against a growing "nationalism of exclusion" of the type that preceded both world wars.The Conference of European Justice and Peace Commissions called it a "matter of se

New coalition appears ready to treat religious minorities with "openness and equality."

Pope Francis plans to visit the Central African Republic late this year in an effort to end two years of intercommunal violence, the vice president of the country's bishops' conference confirmed.Bishop Nestor-Desire Nongo Aziagbia of Bossangoa told Catholic News Service Jan. 22 that the pope

Report argues exclusion is "no longer comprehensible."

Driven underground quarter-century after it was re-legalized with the end of communist rule