For nearly two decades the people of the Congo have known nothing but conflict.

Two prominent Syrian bishops were kidnapped on Monday by armed rebels in the northern province of Aleppo according to a Vatican Radio report The Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi were seized in the village of Kfar Dael on the road to Aleppo

Antiterrorism efforts have improved since the lack of coordination after Sept. 11.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism mdash The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington D C He responded by e-mail to a few questions in the aftermath of the apprehension of the second su

The idea is that when the public is informed, violations like this are far less likely to be repeated.

During the homily of yesterday 39 s mass dedicated to Benedict XVI 16th who turned 86 Pope Francis offered a happily unnuanced endorsement of the ambitions of Vatican II noted efforts to quot turn the clock back quot and suggested the church needed to do more to complete quot everything the H

Here 39 s Kirsten Powers at USA Today wading through the incomprehensible horror show that is the Kermit Gosnell story in Philadelphia and wondering why there is quot precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page quot It 39 s easy to understand why any hu

Will television schedules mean much in the future, when most content is captured on DVRs?

In the excerpt below from the White House transcript of the posthumous presentation of the medal of honor to Father Emil Kapaun President Obama recounts the remarkable story of the chaplain 39 s valor before during and after his capture by Chinese forces in North Korea quot I can 39 t imagine

Would a little healthy hysteria be welcome now as the latest report from the CDC indicates again another possible increase in autism in America The latest CDC survey of parent-reported ASD diagnoses shows an increase from 1 in 86 children aged 6 to 17 reported in 2007 to 1 in 50 in 2011 In this