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SOWING THE FUTURE. Can private investment be put to work against poverty? A farmer digs irrigation channels in Alauca, Honduras.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Kevin Clarke
A new development model seeks to turn the power of the market economy to social good.
Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez has called the hedge funds 'vultures' (CNS photo/Enrique Marcarian, Reuters)
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on June 16 from Argentina of an order to pay a so-called vulture fund $1 billion. That decision lets two lower federal court rulings stand, and Argentina now must turn over information about its U.S. bank holdings. Eric LeCompte, executive director o
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
Rene Brulhart, director of Vatican's Financial Intelligence Authority (CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press Photo)
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Francis dismisses all-Italian five-member board of Vatican’s financial watchdog.
CROSSING GUARDS. Migrants, mostly women and children, disembark from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bus in Phoenix.
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Catholic leaders have raised concerns that Latin American migrants are increasingly in danger of human rights violations, particularly the growing number of minors trying to make the trip from Central America to the United States alone. In a statement released on June 4, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, aux