Signs Of the Times

The apologies reflect General Stanley McChrystal’s new strategy that prioritizes winning over the civilian population.

Bishop Peter Kihara Kariuki of drought-afflicted Marsabit, Kenya, said his diocese has been struggling with the “deadly effects of global warming for years now.”

A new report says the United States must broaden its view of the role of religion in other countries beyond counterterrorism strategies.

Homelessness appears to be making a comeback, but not in the urban and rural communities where it persisted in past decades.

Mexico has been involved in a crackdown on narcotics trafficking cartels that have been fighting turf wars over smuggling routes into the U.S.

A Vatican statement said that church leaders recognized the sense of “pain and anger, betrayal, scandal and shame” that the crisis provoked.

Metals found in such everyday electronic items as mobile phones are helping to fund a bloody conflict in Congo.

More than 1.2 million people are in settlements, and close to 500,000 people have left Port-au-Prince for outlying regions.

Catholic Relief Services’ anti-hunger programs during 2008 helped an estimated 49.3 million people.

“Achieving our objectives in Afghanistan and Iraq has moved to the top of the institutional military’s budget priorities,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.