Vatican cautions that the successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated.
Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for "just and lasting solutions" to the region's conflicts.
The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”
The law marked "a needed and long awaited beginning" of bringing greater justice to all citizens," the journal said.
Advocates for Haitian peasants said the company's donation of hybrid vegetable seeds will harm the island-nation's agriculture.
U.N. human rights experts call upon Honduran government to guard the safety of journalists.
The bishop's driver was arrested as the prime suspect in the murder and confessed, Vatican Radio said.