Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.

A Catholic archbishop said only a few people accused in last year's violence against Christians have been arrested.

An exhibit of African and Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum rejects the presumption that Western standards are the final arbiters of aesthetic achievement. View slide show.

Can mass violence in Darfur, Congo and Somalia be stopped? A report from the United Nations General Assembly.

Pope Benedict has urged the minority Christian community not to be deterred by the attack on Christian homes.

A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologized for a police raid that interrupted a Mass in Michoaca.

Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was "a woman of ardent faith and generous public service" said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.