Ken Hackett has a distinguished record in the humanitarian field having worked for 40 years with Catholic Relief Services.

A year after ISIS stormed across Nineveh, survivors wonder when, or if, they will ever be able to return home.

A hallmark of Pope Francis’ papacy has been his ability to focus the attention of the church and the world on human beings who live on the margins of society. In no area has he accomplished this more profoundly and effectively than in defending the rights of persons on the move—immigrant

From the Middle East, the very cradle of Christianity, come daily headlines that make us want to recoil in disbelief. They accompany images of ghastly beheadings, families torn apart, innocent bystanders mercilessly gunned down and homes torched for no other reason than the faith of their residents.

Speaking quietly and deliberately, Dominican Sister Diana Momeka from Iraq urged a congressional committee hearing May 13 to help the displaced Christian refugees in Iraq to "go back home.""We want nothing more than to go back to our lives; we want nothing more than to go home,"

'American Reckoning,' by Christian G. Appy

To kill always degrades the killer; we become what we say we despise.

Jesus over came violence by 'exposing all its injustice and futility.'

Where is the most dangerous place, and what is the greatest challenge for U.S. foreign policy? The terror of ISIS in the Middle East? Nuclear negotiations with Iran? A broken peace process in the Holy Land? Russian aggression in Ukraine? Actually, the most dangerous place for our nation’s fore

Tsarnaev’s immaturity complicates the desire for swift and brutal punishment.