A court decision in Canada crossed a regrettable, if predictable, redline. For the first time, a young woman successfully applied to proceed with medical assistance in dying based on her autism diagnosis.
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The world is terrible at protecting children in conflict zones
While some children have been evacuated from conflict, more than 1.1 million children in Gaza and 3.7 million in Haiti have been left behind to face the rampaging adult world around them.
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On Óscar Romero’s feast day, El Salvador may have peace from gangs. But at what cost?
President Bukele has used his emergency powers to detain more than 78,000 suspected gang members in security sweeps that human rights groups charge are often arbitrary and violent.
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‘Nowhere is safe’: The state of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis
In Gaza, “nowhere is safe” and “hunger is everywhere.”
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‘Nobody wants to stay in this hell’: The moral call of Haiti
Jean Denis Saint-Félix, S.J.: “Nobody wants to stay in this hell. People are seeking ways to enter, no matter how, the United States,” even “knowing the danger and risks they go through.”
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Catholic charities and religious freedom are under fire at the border
If in its first years, the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom seemed directed at the U.S. left, it is actors on the hard right who have now emerged as the most significant threat to religious freedom.
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An outspoken bishop is bringing hope to Catholics under attack in Myanmar
Myanmar’s church has found a powerful new voice in Bishop Shwe, who has joined his flock among the ranks of the nation’s displaced people.
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Nigerian bishop: Islamic jihad, not climate change, behind mass killing of Christians
“Tell me, how does climate change drive someone to hack a person to death with a machete?”
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No end in sight to Palestinian suffering after collapse of latest ceasefire plan
What happens in the aftermath of the I.D.F.’s Rafah assault remains hard to discern. Where do the Palestinians go next? How will they live? How will they be fed and sheltered?
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Bipartisan child tax credit deal could reverse a historic spike in child poverty
The child tax credit enhancements will lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line in 2024 and move an additional 3 million U.S. children in deep poverty closer to the poverty line.