Kevin Clarke

The quickly deteriorating conditions in Sudan represent perhaps the most compelling case for an international intervention under the evolving responsibility to protect concept Unfortunately with that idea mdash and the NATO air campaign it inspired mdash bogged down in Libya the hard truth is th

Last week Pope Benedict XVI offered more evidence of his greenish sensibilities calling for more research and development of clean energy options for the future During introductory remarks made at a June 9 presentation of credentials from new ambassadors to the Vatican Pope Benedict commented on

The Jesuits in Syria have issued a statement on the difficult conditions there calling for all parties to reject violence and imploring national unity dialogue and freedom of expression nbsp The Syrian Jesuits appear concerned that the political struggle in Syria is on the verge of disintegrating

Deposed President Manuel Mel Zelaya returned to Honduras on Saturday May 28 see Al Jazeera report almost two years after he was first removed from power by Honduran security forces and flown into exile Zelaya was greeted by thousands of red-shirted supporters at the Tegucigalpa airport By so

Is NATO sensing the impending collapse of the Qaddafi regime or of support for the air campaign from a Libya-skeptical Congress Whatever the cause it appears to have decided to dramatically escalate the air campaign over the capital city of Tripoli Western reporters counted 27 air strikes today t

The bad news continues to leak out of the Boston archdiocese The archdiocese was again in the headlines today with a report that Boston may have to confront more shutdowns of parish and or church facilities after a nbsp radical reshuffling nbsp that would unite Boston s 291 parishes into 80 to 12

Caritas Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight the first woman to hold that position bid farewell May 27 to the Caritas community at its general assembly in Rome Knight had just finished to four-year term and was expected to be reappointed but her candidacy for the position was waved off by the cu

A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there

Even as the North and South Sudan sought to extricate themselves from the crisis in Abyei more evidence emerged today that violence will prove a plague on both sides of Sudan s border Citing confidential U N documents it has acquired the Associated Press is reporting that Southern Sudan soldiers

A Tijuana priest missing for over a week has become the latest casualty of the growing violence in Mexico Fides reports that Father Salvador Ruiz Enciso 51 disappeared from his parish in the city of Tijuana northern Mexico near the border with the United States DNA from a body found May 23 bu