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ON GAURD. An Iraqi soldier stands before truckloads of volunteers in Baghdad on June 17, eager to fight Sunni militants converging on the city.
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Bishop calls on the U.S. to urge Iraqi political leaders to form an inclusive government.
Fast-food workers and supporters demand higher wages during rally in New York. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Advocacy has basic message: Anyone who works full time should not live in poverty.
In Liberia, fighting Ebola
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On World Refugee Day, June 20, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, called on the U.S. government to do more to assist Syrian refugees and to protect the rights of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.• Noting
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga
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The world financial system “has been built as a new idolatry,” charged Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, at a forum on June 3 in Washington, sponsored by the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies. During h
Alexis Prem Kumar, S.J.
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As the United Nations reported that 480,000 people have fled after months of fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province, suicide bombings and clashes between security forces and militants killed 36 people on May 30. • Security forces in Afghanistan on June 6 were questioning three Taliban members
Historic Prayer: Israeli President Shimon Peres, Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after their joint prayer.
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Gerard O’Connell