An estimated 73 percent of the population in affected areas say that they will have access to food for less than two months.
The suffering in Gaza remains widespread despite the easing of the Israeli blockade in 2010, say U.N. and church officials.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported the highest number of Americans living in poverty in the 52 years it has collected such estimates.
They allege that “Vatican officials tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.”
Archbishop José Gómez called upon the Obama administration and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform
The bishop of Sendai, a region hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, has outlined the diocese’s reconstruction efforts.