Nearly everything in Rwanda is divided into two parts: before and after the 1994 genocide.
Kerry Weber
Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship. Kerry is the author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press) and Keeping the Faith: Prayers for College Students (Twenty-Third Publications). A graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously worked as an editor for Catholic Digest, a local reporter, a diocesan television producer, and as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.
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Remembering Genocide in Kigali
Managing editor Kerry Weber is reporting from Rwanda Oct 21-26 nbsp as part of the Catholic Relief Services Egan Journalism Fellowship Check back for updates at americamagazine orgKigali Rwanda mdash Perhaps one of the most notable characteristics of the Kigali Memorial Centre is its simplici
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Carmen Cervantes on ministry, machismo and meaningful leadership
“When a Hispanic woman wants to be up front, people don’t know how to deal with it.”
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Of Many Things
In this issue America examines some of the personal, political, liturgical and social-justice issues that are most relevant to Catholic women today. We have asked several writers to consider those aspects of faith and church that sustain them, as well as those aspects that challenge. These
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Working at Mercy: Pope Francis calls us to love one another more fully
Before the articles in the national newspapers, before the talk show appearances by our editors, before the debates in the blogosphere, there was the galley. The words that would receive worldwide attention from the media and would mark a milestone in Francis’ papacy first came across my desk
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On Prayer for Peace in Syria
Over at the Washington Post nbsp our former editor in chief nbsp Drew Christiansen offered his thoughts on prayer fasting and Syria 39 s civil war With no end in sight for Syria rsquo s dreadful civil war Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting for peace on Saturday September 7
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The Perfect Fit
‘Say Yes to the Dress’ is strange and ridiculous. And, for some reason, I keep watching.
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The Mystery of the Shroud
Today rsquo s technology can do amazing things phones take photos cars park themselves Yet researchers still have not developed a device that can definitively pin down the origins of a famous image on a piece of cloth The Shroud of Turin continues to puzzle many believers and scientists alike
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Trying to Get ‘Girls’: Breaking down Lena Dunham’s award-winning HBO show
In the pilot episode of “Girls,” the much-discussed HBO series now in its second season, Hannah, the show’s main character, gets high, gets angsty and gets worried looks from her parents when she describes the importance of her partly-completed memoir. Groggy, she announces: &ldquo
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America Editorial Featured on Huffington Post
nbsp By now you may have seen our recent editorial which calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment nbsp It seems the Huffington Post noticed it too Reporter Meredith Bennett-Smith spoke with our editor in chief Matt Malone S J about the magazine 39 s motivations and the editorial proces