A new U.S. initiative seeks to make some amends for the widespread use of defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.

“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods have made their way to the major cities of Karachi and Lahore.

Remarks from a senior Paksitani official to mark the first anniversary of some of Pakistan’s worst anti-Christian violence.

New Orleans still struggles to rebuild and redefine itself five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.

Iraq's ancient Christian communities face extinction if a U.S. withdrawal is not accompanied by a comprehensive humanitarian response, says Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.

A generation after the end of the cold war, the Initiative proposes redirecting resources saved by nuclear arms reductions toward peace-building.

Catholic aid organizations are responding in Pakistan after the most intense monsoon rainsin the past 30 years caused landslides and floods.