BEIRUT (CNS) -- Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai warned that the Christian presence in the Middle East is shrinking and church leaders "are called to face the winds that blow in our homelands."

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- As rising flood waters claim lives and displace thousands in Sudan, church and church-related humanitarian agencies are responding to the disaster caused by unusually heavy...

SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- San Francisco's archbishop told hundreds of Catholics gathered near City Hall Sept. 20 that "it is because of our Catholic faith that we are being put at the end of the...