President Raúl Castro has attended the opening ceremony of the first new seminary in Havana since the Cuban Revolution.

At least two Catholic priests have gone missing in Sri Lanka in the past four years, a bishop has told a commission investigating the country's civil war.

Benedict XVI has sent a message to the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace that "integral human freedom" will only be achieved through charity.

The Pope met members of the Anti-Defamation League after his general audience yesterday (video).