Was releasing five Taliban prisoners for one U.S. soldier a bad deal the U.S.?

"The Last Sentence," a film by Jan Troell, opens in New York on Friday, June 20.

Forty-six years years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. What would he make of the current state of U.S. politics?

The Jesuit Refugee Service in Rome confirms that on Monday afternoon its country director Alexis Prem Kumar S J was abducted by a group of unidentified men in western Afghanistan We are deeply shocked by Prem s abduction We are in contact with all the relevant authorities and doing everyth

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After returning to Istanbul from his meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem Patriarch Bartholomew made the surprise announcement that the two of them had ldquo agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and to our successors to celebrate together a gathering in Nicea in 2025 after 17 centuries th