When the food system is stressed, we all feel it. Experts issue warning over severe food shortages amid extreme weather — ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict ...

They don’t call the Los Angeles nonsense “Riots” for nothing. As Ralph Kramden would say: “You’re a riot, Alice. A regular riot. Zip-boom to the moon, Alice.” ...

You can’t separate out development and security from human rights and from creating a sense of opportunity for people.’ ...

By Mark Wilmoth An old Chinese proverb says, “He who asks a question seems a fool for a moment, but he who does not ask remains a fool for life.” One of my old math teachers put it more bluntly: ...

Aid distribution in Gaza was halted on Friday after the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said ...

It's hard for Ken Hackett to think of the greatest challenge he experienced during his many years of service with Catholic Relief Services, including 18 as its president. There was t ...

Much of the world has paid scant attention to Myanmar since the coup. Western countries, which did the most to encourage ...

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that demanded an “immediate, unconditional and ...

Today, the foundations of society are being shaken--not by earthquakes or military invasions, but by a far more dangerous force: the steady poisoning of our moral values. This transformation does not ...

The World Food Program is facing a crisis of its own in violence-torn Haiti where hunger is raging and humanitarian needs are ...