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Beheadings, enslavement, kidnappings and rape plague minority religious communities across the Middle East, and it’s time for President Obama to fill a job created to address their plight, a group of prominent evangelicals, scholars and other religious leaders told the White House.In the

The indigenous families living in this South American jungle village came early to see the American doctors running a free health clinic.They paddled dugout canoes for miles on the placid waters of the Wakapoa Creek, gave their names and sat on wooden benches to wait for what may be their only docto

The Holy See is becoming impatient with the complacency of the nuclear powers.

Make Hyde Amendment permanent to avoid future legislative gridlock?

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

Ethiopia's Catholic bishops condemned "in unambiguous terms" the execution of 30 Ethiopian Christian migrants in Libya."These Ethiopian martyrs who were butchered on the coast and desert of Libya were not politicians, nor military soldiers, or they were not armed people, considere

The second of two talks on the complementary nature of men and women

Catholics asked to try to better understand the everyday issues faced by nonwhites.

To say that Cardinal Francis E. George was an intellectual would be an understatement. To try to quantify his impact on the Catholic Church in the United States and in the world would be an underestimation."He's the closest thing in recent American church history to what you would think of

“The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil.”