Signs Of the Times

More than 500 people were killed in Syria during what had been proposed as a four-day ceasefire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

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The aim of interreligious dialogue is not to come to some sort of agreement on religious principles that everyone can accept, Vatican officials say.

Blessed Pope John XXIII published “Peace on Earth” on April 11, 1963, in direct response to the Cuban missile crisis.

Statements on preaching and ways that bishops can utuilize new technologies are among the items the U.S. bishops will consider when they gather in Baltimore for their annual meeting.

Pope Benedict XVI chose “Migrations: pilgrimage of faith and hope” as the theme for the 2013 celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.

The announcement that a London-based family planning charity would open an abortion clinic in Belfast caught Northern Ireland’s politicians by surprise.

Synod members said they were certain God “will not fail to look on our poverty in order to show the strength of his arm in our days and to sustain us in the path of the new evangelization.”