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FaithNews
David Agren - OSV News
Totalitarian Nicaraguan State under President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo attacks Catholic groups with forced closures. 
A woman leaves the formerly Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, on Aug. 16, 2023. The university suspended operations Aug. 16 after Nicaraguan authorities branded the school a "center of terrorism" the previous day and froze its assets for confiscation. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Jesuits: The “unpunished and unjustified confiscation” of UCA has done “inestimable damage to the scientific and cultural heritage of Nicaragua.”
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.
Detail of embroidery in Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, explaining the origin of the church ​​​​​​​Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73268446)
Arts & CultureDispatches
David Stewart
The Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts seeks to reclaim a place for Christian faith in human culture and put faith back into the festival season.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, left, and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez hold up vote tally sheets from the top of a truck during a protest against the official presidential election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, two days after the election. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Hopes for political change in Venezuela were dashed just hours after polls closed when the National Electoral Council declared that Nicholás Maduro had been elected to a third term as president.