VATICAN CITY (Zenit): The Vatican has called on the international community to intervene against prostitution and other exploitation of women, children, and illegal immigrants...

ORLANDO, Florida (CNS): The 100,000 East Timorese refugees residing in Indonesian-controlled western Timor must be allowed to return to their country and not be forced to resettle in other parts of Indonesia, apostolic administrator of Dili, Bishop Carlos Belo said...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of prominent 75 year-old Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico, and has named the bishop of another diocese in the Mexican state of Chiapas to replace him...

Pope John Paul II completed his long-desired pilgrimage to the Holy Land on March 26, in which he preached peace and reconciliation among the region's peoples and religions...

Pope John Paul II will travel to Fatima, Portugal, in May to beatify two shepherd children who had visions of Mary in 1917, a Vatican official confirmed...

MADABA, Jordan (CNS): Standing on the mountain where Moses glimpsed the Promised Land, Pope John Paul II prayed that peace and justice would come to the modern peoples of the troubled region...

KAMPALA,Uganda (CNS): A tape recording of the Virgin Mary helped convert many to a Ugandan sect that apparently committed mass suicide...

POPE John Paul II has made an unprecedented apology for the sins of Christians through the ages, the culmination of the Church's "examination of conscience" for the Jubilee Year...

FRIBOURG, Switzerland (CNS): Switzerland's Catholic bishops have acknowledged that the Church "failed in its obligations toward the Jewish people" during the Nazi era...