The terms used to describe and classify alleged sexual abuse are not standardized across dioceses and religious orders. Should they be?

Several Mideast-based Christians working on the Syria crisis have joined a growing chorus about U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull some 2,000 American troops from Syria.

Congo is preparing for a crucial vote to elect a successor for President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since 2001.

"They shared the belief that this step will help relations between the two sides grow and develop further," said the statement, released Dec. 20.

In adapting Baldwin for the screen, Jenkins produces an ode to black literature.

Sometimes it seems that there are hoops to jump through at every turn.

While church officials have publicly identified 185 clergy members in Illinois as having been “credibly” accused of child sexual abuse, the Illinois attorney general's office states that it found allegations of abuse by at least 500 more.

To truly get me into the spirit of the season, I need “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

The virgin birth is the resurrection, being read into human sexuality

Ms. Morais’s death is a notorious example of an everyday horror in Brazil and other Latin American states: the crime of femicide. In 2017 at least 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Adam Fisher's oral history of Silicon Valley chronicles the genesis and sometimes fall of every tech giant, the invention of key technologies and the development of cultural institutions around the industry.

In a statement issued on December 18, 2018, Greg Schleppenbach, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, decried the epousal by Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, of using fetal tissue from aborted babies for use in medical research.

In a statement issued on December 18, 2018, the U.S. bishops' committee on migration said that the death of the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl trying to enter the United States with her father was a "jarring disruption of the natural order of life" and urged a reexamination of "our failed immigration policies."

From the Center for Investigative Reporting: For more than three decades, Cardinal Bea House on Gonzaga's campus served as a retirement repository for at least 20 Jesuit priests accused of sexual misconduct that predominantly took place in small, isolated Alaska Native villages and on Indian reservations across the Northwest.

Faith-based organizations in Canada are welcoming changes to the federal government’s summer jobs program that remove language interpreted by many to require support for abortion.

Sometimes the give-and-take of prayer is a mystery.

The revelations are seen as an important step by the Society of Jesus.

After an allegation of his misconduct with a minor in the 1990s was deemed credible, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar.

In his World Day of Peace message, Pope Francis warned against the vices that are too often linked to politics today and do not build peace in society.