Condemning an attack on unarmed Christians in Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI said that all its citizens and institutions must work to guarantee the rights of minorities.

In 2010, more than 1,000 priests were victims of extortion, 162 were threatened with death and two were kidnapped and killed.

What started as a small demonstration to protest corporate influence over public policy may now be close to becoming a national movement.

A stark reflection of the poor state of religious freedom 10 years after the United States overthrew the Islamist Taliban regime.

The statement does include a new introduction warning that the document “has at times been misused to present an incomplete or distorted view of the demands of faith in politics.”

Eighteen Catholic colleges asked the Obama administration to broaden the religious exemption offered within new guidelines on women’s health.