Tag: human rights

Catholic leaders across the nation are continuing to express their shock and concern over the Trump administration's plans to livestream a military execution. Questions over...

WASHINGTON  -- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on May 12 reiterated its recommendation that President Donald Trump "swiftly" make a nomination to...

Roughly two months before celebrating a year on the throne of Peter, Pope Leo XIV became one of the most quoted global leaders on...

WASHINGTON -- The 2026 National March for Life theme is "Life is a Gift," The March for Life Education and Defense Fund announced Sept....

WARSAW, Poland-- Ukrainian bishops backed U.N. reports that civilians are being forcibly deported from Russian-occupied areas of their country, recalling scenes from earlier decades. "Although...

HONG KONG -- Cardinal Joseph Zen, retired bishop of Hong Kong, reassured Catholics he is fine after being detained and held by national security...

WASHINGTON — Human rights groups in Washington sounded the alarm after the Salvadoran government began mass arrests and suspended personal freedoms following a record-breaking...

The Catholic Church believes that every person is created in the "image of God." We are made in the image of a community of...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "the church's social teaching proposes principles for reflection; it provides criteria for judgment; it gives guidelines...

The United Nations was born in 1945 out of the rubble and human devastation of World War II. Like its predecessor, the League of...