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Supporters for president elect Cyril Ramaphosa outside parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, on Feb 15. Mr. Ramaphosa on Thursday was elected as South Africa's new president by ruling party legislators after the resignation of Jacob Zuma. (AP Photo/Nasief Manie)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed the resignation as “long overdue.”
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J.D. Long García
More than 800,000 Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, could lose their legal status on March 5.
A prayer vigil in El Progreso on Jan. 25. Photo by Kevin Clarke.
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Kevin Clarke
Father Moreno described the Hernández government as an authoritarian regime tilting toward a dictatorship. “It is a government that represents a threat to freedom of expression. It is a threat to defenders of human rights, and it is a government that threatens the fundamental rights of Honduran citizens.”
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Michael J. O’Loughlin
As same-sex marriage becomes more mainstream, the church holds the line on L.G.B.T. issues.
A priest carries a monstrance in a Corpus Christi procession on June 15, 2017, as people pass the ruins of the the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (CNS photo/Andres Martinez Casares, Reuters)
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Wyatt Massey
Msgr. Aris does not believe those in religious life in Haiti are currently being targeted more than other groups. Violent crime in Haiti is high but hard to measure since most crimes go unreported.
Members of the Hispanic Federation participate in a Unity March in November 2017 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to highlight the ongoing humanitarian and natural disaster crisis in Puerto Rico. (CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters)
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J.D. Long García
Some of the poorest parts of the island remain cut off from the transportation and energy infrastructure.