Church leaders call for peace but also renewed efforts against racism during a week of protest and violence after a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis.

Archbishop Stefan Hesse, Germany’s youngest bishop, said he was entering reform talks with an open mind.

The trafficking of women in Latin America has increased with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to church activists.

“Why are we turning away 21 million pro-life voters? The party has to decide if they want to die on this hill,” Kirsten Day, the executive director of Democrats for Life, told America.

Flora X. Tang reported for classes last week at the University of Notre Dame. She found a lot of improvising to make in-person classes work, but the number of Covid-19 cases on campus rose each day.

Women, children, elderly people, Indigenous populations and migrants will be among those suffering the most.