One of the country’s biggest maternity hospitals, the Rotunda in Dublin, had six cases last year where pregnancies were terminated to save mothers’ lives.

FAIR treatment by schools of all children, regardless of their beliefs, is more important to parents than who is patron, a forum on pluralism in education will hear this morning.

Two Jesuit priests were stabbed to death while sharing a meal in their Moscow apartment, it emerged today.

Thousands of Filipinos bid farewell today to the late Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Sin, a beloved spiritual leader who helped rally his nation to hold massive pro-democracy protests that ousted two presidents.

Zimbabwe’s Roman Catholic bishops today said President Robert Mugabe has lost the moral right to govern by permitting violence and lawlessness for political gain.