The Jesuits in Syria have issued a statement on the difficult conditions there calling for all parties to reject violence and imploring national unity dialogue and freedom of expression nbsp The Syrian Jesuits appear concerned that the political struggle in Syria is on the verge of disintegrating

With apologies to the writers of ldquo Late Night with David Letterman rdquo Right now is not an easy time to be Catholic But is it ever easy I sometimes speculate that it might be simpler to be Protestant Protestants are allowed to go church shopping and they don rsquo t even have to go to a

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global From the first day of the year Brazil has started to go through a completely different experience having a woman president for the first time President Dilma Roussef starts the lineage of women presidents in Brazil And this entails hopes and challenges f

Check out the Saving Seeds episode of American Public Media s The Story Right now all over the world projects are underway to store seeds Biodiversity has plummeted in the last 50 years and scientists fear the effects of climate change They worry we will lose varieties of apples yams and ma

Deposed President Manuel Mel Zelaya returned to Honduras on Saturday May 28 see Al Jazeera report almost two years after he was first removed from power by Honduran security forces and flown into exile Zelaya was greeted by thousands of red-shirted supporters at the Tegucigalpa airport By so

To keep the Web site lively over the summer months we will be featuring biweekly podcast discussions with the editors We ll be talking about a range of items just like we do here at In All Things This week Tim Reidy Fr Jim Martin and Regina Nigro talk about the weighty themes addressed in