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A community gathers in resistance. Photo by Dany Díaz Mejía. Photo courtesy of Rene Aleman Resistance Camp.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dany Díaz Mejía
“We are alive only through the grace of God. At one point, I got messages saying someone had offered 1 million lempiras [$38,000] to have me killed.”
Workers unload food commodities from Catholic Relief Services and USAID in the village of Behera, near Tulear, Madagascar, Oct. 22, 2016. (OSV News Photo/Nancy McNally, Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.
A man carries a wounded girl after an explosion in downtown Tehran amid Israel's three-day campaign of strikes against Iran, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Morteza Zangene/ISNA)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
In judging the morality of an act of war, an easy ask is always: “Was the belligerent party left with no other recourse?” That does not appear to be true in this case.
Soldiers of Ukraine's 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade fire a rocket toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, File)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
It is fair to say that the global tab for addressing the world’s acute humanitarian or ecological needs pales in comparison to the eye-watering amounts governments unabashedly dole out for bombs and bullets.
A pharmacy technician displays one of the drugs used to treat patients with HIV at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akwanga, Nigeria, in this 2010 file photo. Like many such efforts, the hospital has been reliant on PEPFAR funding from the U.S. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Improvements in health care in Eswatini have relied for years on Pepper and the generosity of the American people. During the height of the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic, Eswatini’s population plummeted, and life expectancy dropped from 61 in 1988 to 44 by 2003.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attends an event at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa April 29, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jennifer Gauthier, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Grace Copps
“Carney is responding to the [immigration] backlash but also to the Trump effect, which is placing more pressure on Canada to tighten its border.”