“[I]t’s not the end of the fight. Ahead of us is another challenging battleground. We’re now joining the battle in prison along with many brave protestors, less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for HK.”
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
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‘The situation is just devastating’: Central America left reeling from two storms in two weeks
“The situation is just devastating, and the needs are immense.”
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The Trump administration wrecked refugee resettlement. Can Biden build it back?
Catholic Charities U.S.A. spent decades building a domestic network to assist the social integration of incoming refugees. Three years of declining numbers and obliterated budgets took a sledgehammer to all that.
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How should France respond to latest terror attacks? Look to the Catholic Church.
Could French president Macron’s moves to counter the threat of homegrown Islamic extremism in the end “boomerang,” leading only to greater alienation of Muslim youth from French society?
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Turkey’s involvement in Armenia is dangerous. Could Christians face another genocide?
Advocates warned that the Azerbaijani offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh could represent only the beginning of a renewed, genocidal aggression against the Armenian people.
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Christians in Northern Iraq face a second Covid-19 wave (without enough hospital beds)
Though the Christian communities around Erbil, like much of Iraq, were spared by the first wave of the pandemic, the numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths rose dramatically over the summer and appear now on the cusp of another significant acceleration.
Posted inFaith, Features
The church is losing touch with working-class Catholics
Mass attendance and Catholic affiliation have been eroding steadily since the 1970s for all income brackets, but the sharpest decline has been among the two bottom economic quartiles.
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U.S. bishops urge immediate halt to federal executions
U.S. bishops call the application of capital punishment “completely unnecessary and unacceptable.”
Posted inFaith, News
Archbishop Gregory on today’s March on Washington: The church needs to do more for racial justice
“I don’t think we can take our foot off the pedal. We are doing a credible job; we need to do more.”
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Without quick action, Covid-19 will create a global hunger crisis by the end of 2020
Women, children, elderly people, Indigenous populations and migrants will be among those suffering the most.