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Syrian government forces are deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?”
At a CEPA immersion tour in North Carolina in 2023, Sarah Richards (left), from the University of Dayton, listens in as Eric Henry (far right), president of TS Designs, describes how an ethical supply chain delivers college swag to Dayton students.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Céire Kealty
Can you actually achieve a triple bottom line—people, planet and profit—in clothing manufacture? CEPA shows the way.
A girl who was part of a procession holds the flag of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day in Dublin March 17, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts, parades and art installations, one figure is strikingly absent—Patrick himself.
Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia prays at the grave of a fallen Ukrainian soldier at a military cemetery near the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sept. 6, 2024. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Borys Gudziak
Some voices advocate for immediate peace in Ukraine at any cost, but the world—and both political and religious leaders—must reject the illusion of a pacifism that ignores the harsh realities of evil and injustice.
Somali internally-displaced persons (IDP) children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Around the world, health, nutrition, civil society and peace-building programs are unraveling, staff are being dismissed and the lights are being turned off.
Ukrainan President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a meeting during a European leaders' summit at Lancaster House in central London March 2, 2025. (OSV News photo/Justin Tallis, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The European bishops were careful to note that their expression of solidarity was extended to Ukrainians “who have been suffering from Russia’s unjustifiable full-scale invasion for more than three years.”