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Protesters against illegal immigration hold signs and wave flags to motorists on highway overpass. (CNS photo/Sandy Huffaker, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times
Jim McDermott
The example of Christ looms large over the immigration debate here.
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law in Entebbe on Feb. 24, 2014. (CNS photo/James Akena, Reuters)
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Uganda’s gay rights supporters caught a glimpse of hope on Aug. 1 when the country’s constitutional court ruled that the December 2013 parliamentary vote to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was illegal because of the below-quorum attendance. The new law, hailed by the Ugandan president a
Demonstrators from various religions gather during protest in Iraq against militants of Islamic State. (CNS photo/Azad Lashkari, Reuters)
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“Thousands of people, including many Christians, driven from their homes in a brutal manner; children dying of thirst and hunger in their flight; women kidnapped; people massacred; violence of every kind”—Pope Francis was clear in his condemnation of the actions of the militants of
Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J. (CNS photo/courtesy Fordham University)
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Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., a theology professor at Fordham University, was given the top award of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious’ on Aug. 15 during its national assembly in Nashville, Tenn. During her acceptance speech, she strongly criticized the U.S. bishops for their formal cr
PEACEMAKING. Father Robert Rosebrough of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Ferguson, Mo., leads a prayer vigil for peace on Aug. 11.
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As groups across the country held vigils to remember Michael Brown, a teenager whose death on Aug. 9 has sparked a wave of unrest in his Missouri hometown and raised questions about racial profiling and police militarization, religious leaders in the St. Louis area called upon “all people to p
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In a letter read during an Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Washington on July 30, the chairmen of two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offered their support for national standards to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants in an effort to limit climate chan