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Faith Scripture Reflections
August 03, 2023
A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Migrants walk along concertina wire as they try to cross the Rio Grande at the Texas-U.S. border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Politics & Society Dispatches
July 20, 2023
In an email exchange between a Texas state trooper and his supervisor, the trooper reported receiving orders in encounters with migrating people that he called “inhumane.”
Pope Francis greets Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on Feb. 18, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & Society News Analysis
July 18, 2023
What obligation does the United States still owe these Christians and other Iraqi religious minorities? What is it willing to do to assist and protect them?
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Faith Scripture Reflections
July 07, 2023
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
Politics & Society Dispatches
June 28, 2023
A policy of deterrence through intentional neglect has not had an impact on migration, but it has resulted in far more losses among migrants and refugees.
Politics & Society Short Take
June 22, 2023
How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.
Kassem Abo Zeed holds up a phone displaying a photo of himself with his wife, Ezra, who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, in the southern port city of Kalamata on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Abo Zeed traveled from Hamburg, Germany to try and find his wife and her missing brother, Abdullah Aoun. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Politics & Society Dispatches
June 20, 2023
At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people
A member of the Mexican army stands guard outside a church in the parish community of Cerocahui on June 22, 2022. Jesuit Fathers Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar were murdered at the parish June 20 as they offered refuge to a tour guide seeking protection. (CNS photo/Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
June 16, 2023
Despite the heightened presence of Mexican military in the aftermath of the Jesuit murders, “violence is still very present” in the region, Father Javier Ávila said.
Joggers trot along the Reflecting Pool with the sun rising over the Washington Memorial and a thick layer of smoke, Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Washington. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Politics & Society Dispatches
June 09, 2023
Canadians experience wildfires each year owing to lightning strikes and “careless people,” but no one can recall conditions like this.
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Faith Scripture Reflections
June 02, 2023
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and companions, by Kevin Clarke