Recently, Ethan Wolfe, a six year-old Phoenix boy heard that people in Haiti had to drink “dirty water” every day and asked his family what they could do about it.

Citing his Christian faith, President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC news on Wednesday.

Proponents of euthanasia and aborting chronically ill fetuses use the same arguments that were once used by the Nazis to promote their eugenics program of mass extermination, according to the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper.

The sign outside the polling station at Devon Park United Methodist Church exemplified this state’s struggle with a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

Following Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a third term as President of Russia at the Kremlin on 7 May, Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church held a prayer service for his health and successful rule and praised him as Russia’s legitimate leader.

Prominent human rights advocate and attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who represents imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, has reportedly been sentenced to nine years in jail for allegedly “acting against national security” in Iran.

A Muslim lawyer has called for the introduction of sharia courts in Russia, threatening a “bloodbath” if the demand is opposed, reports the UK-based Barnabas Fund .

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday (May 5) called on Catholic colleges and universities in the United States to do more to affirm their “Catholic identity,” particularly by ensuring the doctrinal orthodoxy of their faculty and staff.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput announced Friday (May 4) that five priests accused of sexually abusing children last year would be barred from ministry and could be defrocked, while three others were cleared by a church-led investigation and could return to pastoral work.

When the Vatican last month announced a doctrinal crackdown on the leadership organization representing most of the 57,000 nuns in the U.S., the sisters said they were “stunned” by the move. Many American Catholics, meanwhile, were angry at what they saw as Rome bullying women whose lives of service have endeared them to the public.