Looking for signs of hope after Detroit files the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy
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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Haiti’s Slow Recovery
Kevin Clarke visits Port au Prince three year's after Haiti's devastating earthquake. Find out more—Road to Recovery: Reconstructing Haiti.
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Field of Dreams
Catholic Relief Services hopes to build a recreation center in Solino, one of the toughest neighborhoods in the Haitian capital.
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Migrants around the world seek dignity and safety
Efforts to respond to the global crisis of migration are straining budgets not only at humanitarian agencies like Catholic Relief Services but among nations near points of flight.
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U.S. bishops support legislative bridge for ‘Dreamers’
Under current law many so-called Dreamers are technically subject to deportation to home countries.
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Ending the death penalty is closer than you think
Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.
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Five Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn’t:
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Putin, Trump, Pope Francis and the future of nukes
Are Trump and Putin about to begin a new nuclear arms race?
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U.S. Bishops urge legislation to protect ‘Dreamers’ from deportation
Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.
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Fight for Mosul Drags On While Displaced Numbers Grow
Speaking from Baghdad on Dec. 14, Kevin Hartigan, Catholic Relief Services’ regional director for the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe told America that his team was bracing for what may be unprecedented numbers of people in flight from the contested city.