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Honduran environmental activist and lay Catholic leader Juan Antonio López was killed Sept. 14, 2024. (Video screen grab)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Juan López was gunned down as he was leaving Mass by a still unidentified assassin, becoming the latest casualty among defenders of creation and Indigenous and human rights in Honduras.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
In the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump claimed without evidence that members of an Ohio city’s growing Haitian community were “eating cats; they’re eating dogs … they’re eating pets.”
Worshipers wait for Pope Francis outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim )
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Indonesia sees itself as a site of calm and tolerance during a time when different faiths come into ruinous conflict in other nations, a self-image undermined by flare-ups of religiously motivated violence.
A Zimbabwean man walking through his drought-affected corn field outside Harare. (OSV News photo/Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Migration has been a defining reality of the human experience; that is not going to change because of 19th-century innovations like national borders.
Members of Iranian-backed Hezbollah group walk barefoot as they carry a poster showing Hezbollah drones that read, in Arabic: "We are coming," during the holy day of Ashoura, which commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Dark days indeed appear to be looming ahead for Lebanon. Forces far beyond the control of its already embattled citizens—plagued by years of economic and political instability—are dictating their nation’s future.
Police halt a counterprotest organized against a planned far-right anti-immigration protest in Walthamstow, London, on Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Rioting was sparked by a knife attack at a dance studio in Southport on July 29. Three children were killed and other children and adults injured and seriously wounded.