Signs Of the Times

At least four people died when buses carrying Christian university students was bombed near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The Catholic University Students’ Centre of Thailand has been encouraging its members to meet members of fueding political parties.

“You also can’t underestimate the value of pastoral presence,” said Gordon Wage of Catholic Charities.

An election victory for Iraq’s more secular parties is not tempting Iraqi Christian refugees to return home,

Bishop Gerald Kicanas said the new law “does not address the critical need for border security to confront drug smuggling…and human trafficking.”

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries.

Colombian authorities said a Catholic priest led paramilitary groups that committed rapes and massacres.

The bishops of England and Wales asked Catholics to carry out acts of penance to help atone for clerical abuse crimes.

More than 3,500 attended the first traditional Latin Mass in decades at the National Shrine.

“The orders appear to enable Israel to detain, prosecute, imprison and/or deport any and all persons present in the West Bank,” said Richard Falk of the U.N.