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Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Jim McDermott
For displaced Haitians in San Diego and Mexico, the real emergency is what to do now.
Four mothers and 10 children land in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Jan. 6 after being deported from the United States (CNS/photo/Esteban Biba, EPA).
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Ashley McKinless
A large sign reads “Ya estás en tu país and con tu gente”: “You are now in your country and with your people.” I imagine it is a bittersweet welcome.
Xavier Albarran, 9, and his mother, Erika Albarran, pray during the Litany of Saints at a Mass celebrated July 27 by Bishop David R. Choby of Nashville, Tenn. (CNS photo/ Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register)
FaithEditorials
The Editors
Hispanics made up 70 percent of the church’s growth in the last 50 years.
Weapons seized from criminal gangs are displayed before being destroyed by military personnel at a military base in Tijuana, Mexico, on August 12, 2016. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
Politics & SocietyNews
Religion News Service
Injustices have been piling up and have prompted questions about whether the church is under attack.
An outdoor market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
Politics & Society
Dennis M. Leder
What drew you to Guatemala?
FaithVantage Point
Paul Farmer

Graham Greene's The Comedians is surely the most famous novel set in contemporary Haiti. The book, published in 1965, introduced the English-speaking world to the methods of governance of président-a-vie Francois Duvalier. Following the novel's publication, both Greene and his book were banned in Haiti. Papa Doc was furious with the expose, certainly, but he was also vexed by the ethnographic detail of the novel. Trained as an anthropologist, the dictator knew that careful observers like Greene are always more difficult to discredit. Duvalier did his best, however, going so far as to produce a glossy bilingual pamphlet, Graham Greene Demasque, which depicted the writer as "unbalanced, sadistic, perverted ... the shame of proud and noble England." Although Greene would later term this assessment "the greatest honor I've yet received," Duvalier was not joking. The Comedians, travelers to Haiti were warned, was a book that even the luggage-rifling thugs at the airport could recognize.