The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said an agreement is in effect for three years, restoring funding and requiring the charity to “maintain enhanced compliance and oversight measures.”

The measure comes more than six years after the Diocese of Madison threatened to sue the local government of Dane County over its imposition of a 50-person cap on Mass attendance in 2020.

Australia's antislavery commissioner, Chris Evans, who has hailed the Catholic sector’s work, wants large companies legally required to find and fix forced labor in their supply chains.

The hospitalized pontiff initiated the call to the Russian president, according to the Vatican secretary of state.

The prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, is in the United Kingdom for the first time meeting with faith leaders.

Catholic leaders urged Congress to defend disability rights, warning a new Department of Justice opinion could threaten community-based care.

The pontiff, still hospitalized after surgery, sent a message for World Food Day on Friday.

Vatican sources also indicated that the pope will publicly lead the Angelus this Sunday, although it has not yet been determined whether it will be from the hospital or the Vatican.

The Vatican secretary of state also said Thursday that the pontiff may have to “adjust his pontificate if it becomes necessary.”

Despite threats of violence and restrictions placed on some Christian communities, the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria is encouragging missionaries to be unafraid.