Catholic News Service

Lake Poopo dried up three years ago, and 30 million fish died almost overnight. Along with the fish went the livelihood of the residents of a few dozen Aymara and Uru communities.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster described the attempted bombing of a rush hour Tube train in London as "yet another cowardly attack." 

The process of "journeying together" during the Catholic Church's synods of bishops offers a map for the church's outreach, Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl said Sept. 12.

Updated: Greg Burke, director of the Vatican press office, on the Vatican's investigation of diplomat recalled from the U.S. embassy after he becomes involved in criminal investigation involving child pornography.

Religious freedom requires tolerance of differing viewpoints in addition to the free practice of faith to assure civility in American society, speakers said during a Brookings Institution program.

Colombia's long and arduous path toward reconciliation and a lasting peace after nearly half a century of war is a sign of hope for all Christians, Pope Francis said.

Several young people attending a Vatican-sponsored seminar urged the bishops to be open to listening to youths talk and ask questions about love, sex and sexuality.

Three Catholic organizations working on sustainable development have developed a tool to measure and rank countries' efforts in human and environmental development.

A top U.S. bishops' committee urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to extend the renewal deadline for those covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program who live in Texas and Florida.

Belgium's Brothers of Charity Group, which runs 15 centers for psychiatric patients, has rejected a Vatican order to stop offering euthanasia.

Today, Greenfield in California's Salinas Valley looks and feels different because Fr. Enrique Herrera believed that the Catholic Church could make life better for the city's residents.

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked part of a lower court ruling that would have allowed more refugees to avoid Trump's travel ban. 

Indian Salesian Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted by Islamic State militants in Yemen and held captive for more than a year, was freed.

The hurricane left hardly any place near its path untouched, knocking out power to millions, flooding cities and leveling entire islands in the Caribbean.

The U.N. Refugee Agency reports as many as 350,000 Rohingya Muslims have entered Bangladesh in the past two weeks after fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar. 

The Italian cardinal who oversaw the Vatican-led reform and reorganization of the Legionaries of Christ died in Rome just several days before his 82nd birthday.

The bells, which will be run nightly in Manila beginning Sept. 14, are meant to call attention to the as many as 13,000 people who have died under President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein spurred outrage when she questioned a Catholic judicial nominee Sept. 6 about what impact her faith would have on her interpretation of the law.

A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the Pacific coast of southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing buildings to collapse and tremors that rocked as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City.

Italian Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, retired archbishop of Bologna and founder of the Pope John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, died Sept. 6 at the age of 79.