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Claudio Montes checks a shipping manifest for U.S. manufactured parts heading to assembly plants in Mexico at Freight Dispatch Service Agency LTD in Pharr, Texas in June 2017. The freight service ships parts between the U.S. and Mexico that pass through the border freely due to the North American Free Trade Agreement. (Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor via AP, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
In NAFTA negotiations, Mexico shows cautious optimism
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Nafta has been the world’s most valuable trade deal, and its consequences are more deeply felt in Mexico than in the United States or Canada.
A protester is taken away by police officers as a prison bus carrying Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong leaves the high court after his sentencing in Hong Kong on Aug. 17. A court overturned sentences that the prosecution said were too light and sent Wong and two other student leaders of huge pro-democracy protests in 2014 to prison. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Jail terms for pro-democracy leaders raise concerns of political persecution in Hong Kong
Hong Kong contributor
The sentences made the young activists Hong Kong’s first political prisoners under Chinese rule and prompted a massive street protest on Aug. 20.
Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, speaks during a video news conference on Aug. 23 after being named chair of the U.S. bishops' new Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
FaithDispatches
Will the bishops’ new anti-racism committee make a difference?
Michael J. O’Loughlin
An ad hoc committee to deal with racism in society and in the church may lead to the first pastoral letter on racism written by U.S. bishops since 1979
FaithDispatches
Pope Francis says with magisterial authority: the Vatican II liturgical reform is ‘irreversible’
Gerard O’Connell
The reform of the liturgy introduced by Vatican II is here to stay.
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, and Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago greet asylum seekers at the Humanitarian Respite Center at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas, on Aug. 15. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)
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Chicago's Cardinal Cupich thanks Texas parish for 'welcoming the stranger'
Catholic News Service
Cardinal Cupich of Chicago visited McAllen, Texas, to grant $100,000 for a new building to provide services for asylum seekers.
President Paul Kagame is sworn in for another term at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug.18. (AP Photo Eric Murinzi)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Making sense of the tension and contradictions in Kenya and Rwanda's elections
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Two elections this month in eastern and central Africa—in Kenya and Rwanda—have brought out tensions and contradictions in the continent’s democratic process.
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