The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration joined by bishops on the border will travel to Nogales Arizona March 30-April 1 to tour the U S -Mexico border and celebrate Mass on behalf of the close to 6 000 migrants who have died in the U S desert since 1998 According to the

I did a podcast interview with Rev Amy Ziettlow last May that was just published in HuffPo In addition to being an ordained minister and a fellow at the Institute for American Values Amy has a background in classical dance and was interested in the connections I make between music and belief The

nbsp Jaffna Srilanka I am near the end of my two weeks in Srilanka and post here my fourth blog from the very northern tip of this island - Ceylon as we used to call it - off the coast of India You can read the first second and third too While the rest of my ten-week travels in South Asia

Christians who remain in Syria 39 s Raqqa province nbsp may now be subject to a quot dhimmi pact quot In classical Islamic law a dhimmi or ldquo protected person rdquo is allowed to live in Muslim lands provided he pays the jizya a residency tax in a state of submission and abides by other

I saw the other night the world premiere of a brilliant and ironic new play Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreitzer at the Marin Theatre Company The play raises for us some of the subtle ironies behind the cartoon character Wonder Woman and some of the vagaries of contemporary feminism In it a pr

Just two days ago they killed nbsp killed 59 pupils at a boarding school in Yobe state nbsp Why can 39 t these terrorists be stopped From Voice of America YOLA NIGERIA nbsp mdash Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram shot dead at least 12 people during a four-hour siege on villages in northeas