Human trafficking occurs overseas and in the U.S., including in Ohio's cities, small towns, and rural areas. Reducing the demand for paid sex and forced labor is a key strategy to disrupt human ...

Pope Leo XIV pushed the Trump administration to display respect for every human being in his first interview since assuming the highest position of authority at the Vatican. The Chicago-born Leo ...

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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor issued this statement, titled ‘On Human Dignity, Political Violence and Rediscovering Our Common Human Bonds,” Sept. 16. “Given the events of the last several days in our ...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday urged Catholic theologians to embrace a “theology of wisdom” capable of addressing urgent global challenges, from environmental crises to the ethical questions posed by ...

Members of the European Parliament dramatically refused a request to honor Charlie Kirk with a a moment of silence in the chamber Thursday. Kirk, 31, was killed Wednesday as he addressed students at ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,' said the cardinal, who will fill the seat vacated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who ...

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a universal basic income as a cushion against job losses. But Hinton says UBI won't solve the deeper problem of the dignity and worth people get from their jobs.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping law, ethics, and society at a speed that threatens fundamental human dignity. Dr. Maria Randazzo of Charles Darwin University warns that current regulation fails ...

The investment portfolio is a powerful lever that nonprofits and faith-based organizations can use to support their missions. Not all of the over 200,000 nonprofits that have investment accounts or ...

Former Representative George Santos, a New York Republican, complained in a new op-ed that the prison facility where he's spent just over a month displays "a culture of neglect" and conditions that ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will not participate in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State ...