Signs Of the Times

A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom. 

Vatican official says a new arms trade treaty “must establish mechanisms to curtail irresponsible and destabilizing arms transfers.”

A call for reform and an end to violence on both sides.

In Belfast on June 27, Queen Elizabeth of Britain shook hands with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander.

U.S. bishops object to House proposals for food assistance cuts.

Conditions deteriorate for Christians in Syria—and for everyone else—as fighting and bloodshed grow wider.

Aid agencies from the Catholic church join the effort to respond to widespread flooding in India’s Assam state.

The economic downturn that has been a hardship for Americans has had a greater impact on the elderly in Cuba, who increasingly struggle to fend for themselves.

Islamist militants have claimed responsibility for the deaths of more than 50 people in north-central Nigeria 

The election of Mohamed Morsi has fed fears that Islamists will use their political mandate to impose restrictions on dress and behavior.