Signs Of the Times

A group of Palestinian Christians, Muslims and some Jewish supporters managed to breach the tight security separating Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

Two pending federal lawsuits seek to pull the Vatican into U.S. courts over claims that it is liable for damages to victims of sexual abuse by priests

Palestinians are frustrated by excessive presence of Israeli police and numerous barricades during Holy Week.

“Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.

Vulnerable populations affected by wars and internal conflicts were among the major concerns highlighted in the report.

The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.

More than 26 groups say their calls for a new model of development in Haiti are being ignored.

More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

A priest was found to have violated a condition of his reassignment by continuing to work with youth.