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InterVarsity Spokesperson Greg Jao
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Jim McDermott
IntraVarsity student says groups should be led members "representative of that religion.”
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Anthony Egan, S.J.
Philosophy of 'Ubuntu' is important to the founding myth of the new South African nation.
Does Democracy Have a Prayer? Catholic youth join demonstrators outside a government office in Hong Kong on Sept. 30.
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Gerard O’Connell
Tensions between student demonstrators and authorities in Beijing rose as protests continued for broader democratic rights in Hong Kong in October. On Oct. 3 protesters accused police of allowing pro-government “thugs” to assault them in the city’s Mong Kok district.“Nothing
Iraqi refugees pose with speakers from Jordanian Catholic and Muslim institutions coming to their aid in Jordan.
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From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources
Iraqi refugees who fled Islamic State violence after Mosul was overrun say it will be difficult ever to return home, despite concerns by the church that more Christians are fleeing their ancient homeland in the Middle East. “I thought I was living in a kind of dystopian end-of-times film,&rdqu
Bishop Rogelio Livieres Plano of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, who was dismissed from post, pictured after interview in Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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After a Vatican investigation, Pope Francis removed a Paraguayan bishop from his post as head of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este because of “serious pastoral reasons.” But the bishop shot back later the same day, charging in an open letter that he was the victim of an ideological campaign
YAZIDI EXODUS. These refugees escaping from Iraq into Turkey were joined in September by waves of Syrian Kurds in flight from ISIS.
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Daniel G. Groody
On Sept. 18, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began a military offensive outside of the Kobane area in northern Syria, and in no time they had terrorized and seized 60 of the surrounding villages. Over the next three days an unprecedented flight of 160,000 refugees escaped across Turkey’s s