Keynote speaker off stage booed off stage by Middle East Christian bishops and eparchs.

‘I’m doing this for my future, for my sons to have a union,” Jamne Izquierdo said, holding up a sign demanding a better wage outside a McDonald’s restaurant on 8th Avenue and 56th Street in New York on Sept. 4. Izquierdo has worked at a different Manhattan McDonald’s fa

ldquo I rsquo m doing this for my future for my sons to have a union rdquo Jamine Izquierdo says holding up a sign demanding a better wage outside a McDonald rsquo s restaurant on 8th Avenue and 56th Street in New York on Sept 4 Izquierdo has worked at a different Manhattan McDonald rsquo s

Report critical of sluggish international response to vast human rights violations

Like most folks I have been following events in Ferguson Missouri with equal measures of despair and frustration I have even watched the live feed from Vice news before a queasy feeling sent me away from my computer screen mdash the realization that I may have stumbled upon a new cultural phenom w

The rapid collapse of Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, was a surprise to many.

Israeli forces began withdrawing from parts of the Gaza Strip on Aug. 3, after a quick collapse of a humanitarian ceasefire on Aug. 1 and a ferocious bombardment of the border community of Rafah in its aftermath. As what he described as a redeployment of Israeli forces began, Prime Minister Benjamin

The latest ceasefire in Gaza unraveled less than two hours after it began on Aug 1 when a Hamas operation led to the killing of two I D F soldiers and the capture of a third updated IDF now reports soldier believed captured had been killed and circumstances around the incident are disputed In

U.S. Jesuits make appeal to Jesuit alumni in Congress to uphold human dignity.

Here 39 s an AP lead you don 39 t see every day nbsp Members of Congress are falling over one another to show their support for Israel nbsp While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire U S lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to t