The sox-year Islamic uprising has killed about 20,000 people and driven 2.5 million from their homes.

The German church's special representative for refugees said he believed a cap would violate the Geneva Convention and Germany's Basic Law. "Christians cannot allow people who've faced untold suffering and are needing help to encounter closed borders," Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg said.

Inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and gatherings of the Latin American bishops in Medellin, Colombia, and Puebla, Mexico, Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia showed a preferred option for the poor, rubbed the rich the wrong way and ran afoul of the Vatican with his pastoral approach, especially with his ordination of married, indigenous deacons.

In a Middle East torn apart by war and conflict, fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon.Millions of people across countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq are gripped by hunger, struggling to survive with little help from the outside world. Children suffer from severe malnutrition, their paren

It's the second round of state aid for the city since the crisis was confirmed in the fall, bringing the total allocated to nearly $39 million. The Republican governor said the funding will provide immediate resources in Flint, but is not the end of state assistance.

"The most important part of our role is for the safety for the pope and our community," Mayor Oscar Leeser told media. "El Paso is Juarez and Juarez is El Paso," Leeser said. "We're one city and one community."

The meetings are part of a process outlined in a U.N. resolution last month that envisages an 18-month timetable for a political transition in Syria, including the drafting of a new constitution and elections. The opposition boycott is a blow to the U.N.'s attempt to bring representatives of President Bashar Assad's government and his opponents together for the first time in two years.

Everyone sins, Pope Francis said, but sin turns to corruption when we begin to feel we have no need of forgiveness.

Kasich and Bush go against the pessimistic grain

If moderns no longer know what the word “sin” means, perhaps they should search their lives for frustration.

The warning from the World Health Organization came amid a call to arms by officials on both sides of the Atlantic over the mosquito-borne virus, which has been linked to a spike in a rare birth defect in Brazil. Brazil's president—noting there is no medical defense against the infection—called for a crusade against the mosquitoes spreading it.

Many perceive the Prime Minister's comment about refugees as calculated and distasteful.

The indictments produced a wave of media coverage heavy with schadenfruede among supporters of Planned Parenthood.

What if we admitted that what the Planned Parenthood videos revealed was legal, and then asked why?

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Moral MaturityI think Bill McGarvey is being generous in “Credo...” (1/18), when he says the faith of many has not been thoughtfully engaged since their early teen years; I am not even sure how engaged it was in those years.I have found the writings of Ron Rolheiser, O.M.I., very illumin