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.”

Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?

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.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

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.”

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?

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke

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.

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.

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 over 2021.