The figure was below the number of 62 million reported in 2000, but the difference is due to a change in the way data was collected.

A Vatican decree on May 2 established new norms for Caritas Internationalis, giving Vatican offices greater authority over the work of the umbrella group of 162 Catholic aid agencies around the world.

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago on April 25 presided over the burial of some of the 120 fetuses stored at a medical examiner’s office.

John Brennan’s presentation was intended to pull back the curtains on the administration’s drone policy.

The archbishop of Jos said he could not understand why the government appeared powerless to prevent deadly attacks on Christians.

Hundreds of faith-based and grass-roots organizations are working alongside the Occupy Wall Street movement.

An American spokesperson for Al Qaeda said that because of church scandals Catholics were 'fertile ground' for conversion.

The conviction of Charles Taylor should send a clear message that the era of impunity for heads of state guilty of war crimes is over.

The U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious is not the first national group of religious reined in by Rome because of “serious doctrinal problems.”

More than three-quarters of millennials say unemployment and finding a job are their greatest concerns.