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Faith Scripture Reflections
October 06, 2023
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
A damaged residential apartment building following shelling is seen in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, declared that it started what it called an "anti-terrorist operation" targeting Armenian military positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and officials in that region said there was heavy artillery firing around its capital. (AP Photo/Siranush Sargsyan)
Politics & Society Dispatches
September 19, 2023
Many fear the endgame in the region will mean widespread loss of life and ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh unless global attention can be redirected to the crisis.
Faith Scripture Reflections
September 01, 2023
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Workers walk past a building of the 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 & Society Dispatches
August 29, 2023
Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, grow any worse.
Politics & Society Dispatches
August 24, 2023
The latest moves by the Ortega regime came close to a direct expulsion of the Jesuits without actually stepping over that line, according to an expert on Latin American revolutions.
A woman leaves the 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 & Society Dispatches
August 21, 2023
Nicaraguan officials ratcheted up a harassment campaign targeting Jesuits in Managua over the weekend.
A student looks at his cellphone while walking at Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 2022. (CNS photo/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
August 16, 2023
A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order.”
Faith Features
August 14, 2023
Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
Politics & Society Dispatches
August 11, 2023
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
Reflective photos of clouds
Faith Scripture Reflections
August 03, 2023
A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke