Venezuela's bishops have hit back at President Hugo Chávez, accusing him of "unjust aggressions" against the Catholic Church.
Priests in Pakistan are warning their flocks that they risk provoking violence if they discuss Islamic doctrine.
The new leader of Bogota archdiocese, Archbishop Jesús Rubén Salazar Gómez, has described paedophilia as a psychiatric illness and said marriage cannot cure it.
Bishop has congratulated the East Timorese government for resisting foreign pressure to legalise abortion.
