"Any delay in improving safeguarding documents around the world is leaving vulnerable people and children in danger."

Pope Francis said Catholics should offer assistance to families settling in a new country, and, as Lent begins, he called on Catholics not to make excuses when it comes to giving to those asking for change.

Drew Christiansen, S.J., discusses the significance of religious peacebuilding in struggling countries.

Addressing 90 experts from many countries, Francis said that “all people have a right to safe drinking water.”

As civil strife threatens greater disorder, a famine looms in South Sudan; Pope Francis urges intervention.