Jesuits in Malta are calling for an international response to protect civilians in Libya and to assist in the evacuation of sub-Saharan nationals whose governments have been unable or unwilling to remove their citizens from dangerous conditions amid the chaos in Libya Responding to the use of deadl

From Mirada Global an examination of the perennial floods in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro mdash and why nothing has been done to prevent them The whole of Brazil and even the rest of the world have witnesses the situation that the State of Rio de Janeiro faces due to the rains and the floods

At Poynter org Martin Baron editor of the Boston Globe talks about the journalistic process behind breaking the story of sexual abuse by priests He says he lit the match starting the investigation on his first day on the job nearly ten years ago Baron was determined to avoid ldquo he said s

The Christian member of the Pakistan government killed by Islamic fanatics on Wednesday gave an interview last year which shows he had received threats and knew he was likely to die Shahbaz Bhatti who was Minister of Minorities opposed Pakistan s notorious blasphemy law condemned by Pope Benedic

Cambridge MA Lent is upon us our Sunday readings from the Sermon on the Mount come to an end on March 6 and so we must take leave of our series on Swami Prabhavananda rsquo s Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta Three passages from his commentary on Chapter 7 of Matthew of which we hear on

Archbishop Silvano M Tomasi the nbsp Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva issued a statement on the requirement of religious freedom that is especially pertinent in light of the assassination March 1 of Pakistani Minorities