Access to clean water is a basic human right

Pope Francis has called for March 22, World Water Day, as a time to recognize the importance of universal clean drinking water and sanitation as basic human rights, especially in the developing countries of the world.

In his encyclical letter Laudato Si’, he

Priests attacked by armed men in Irish church raid

The Garda Síochána, Ireland's National Police, are searching for armed raiders who broke into a church rectory in early March, threatened two priests with weapons before spraying the clerics with bleach and making off with the Sunday Mass offerings.