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More people will come. Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet empty.

“The most massive failure of the Catholic community at all levels in the past 20 years has been to address the question of our ongoing involvement in the Middle East,” Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego said on March 7. • The Netherlands-based group Open Doors International urged

“Women are knocking on the door of the church…. But I fear a generation will come that will stop knocking,” Dr. Carolyn Woo, president and C.E.O. of Catholic Relief Services, said at the Vatican on March 8 during a panel discussion organized by Voices of Faith, a Catholic women&rs

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I’ll come out and say it: The winner of the election should not matter.

Only 36 percent of refugee children go to secondary school.

Economists tend to agree that a tax on oil is a smart idea.

The Christos, for a skinny guy, sure was interested in good things to eat.

The Obama administration is nearing a decision on whether to declare formally that atrocities by the Islamic State against religious minorities, including Christians, constitute genocide. As impatient lawmakers and religious groups step up calls for action, Secretary of State John Kerry may not make

A U.N. report describing sweeping crimes, including the burning alive of children and disabled people and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment, shows South Sudan is facing “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world,” the U.N. human rights chief said on Ma

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This is not a Muslim or a Christian or a Jewish or a pagan Greek problem.

The new law makes it easier for abuse victims to obtain restraining orders.

Beauty is not the first word that comes to mind when most people think of the AIDS epidemic.

The Exercises are about seeing, loving and following Jesus.

Merrick Garland is no stranger to the political aspects of judicial confirmation.

Salih Muslim, the co-president of the PYD, said the only way forward was a decentralized Syria—any formula for that would be acceptable to the Kurds.

He argues Biden's positions on abortion and same-sex marriage should make him ineligible to receive the award.

President Obama held up Merrick as diligent public servant, highlighting his work leading the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing.