Dispatches

More than in most countries the church in the United States has the means and the will to help. So let’s put those resources to work.

A large military parade was seen as a continuation of China’s campaign to maintain public hatred of Japan.

Thousands of people fleeing Middle East calamity zones are piling up at barricades on the borders of Europe.

Tomorrow the State Assembly of the state of California may very well pass a bill to make assisted suicide legal for its 38+ million residents.

“Borders are killing people,” said Jesuit Refugee Service Europe director Jean-Marie Carrière.

What we are seeing is a humanitarian disaster on a much larger scale than previously thought.

The biggest talking point thus far is the remarkable popularity of Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran of the party’s left.

A meeting in Cuba with FARC offers some risks for Pope Francis, but his intervention—and blessing on the outcome of the peace process in Colombia—could be just the push negotiators need to finish the job and bring in an end to a conflict that has smoldered since 1964.

There is a tendency to believe that issuing a 140 character response to a matter of urgency actually constitutes making a difference.