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Surviving in America

August 17-24, 2015

Vol. 213 / No. 4

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DETENTION PROTEST. An immigration advocate demonstrates in Los Angeles on July 10.
Signs Of the Times

Immigration advocates hailed a court ruling on July 24 that could mean the end of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy to lock up families in compounds run by for-profit prison companies while they pursue asylum and other types of protection from deportation.Judge Dolly Gee of the Central C

CITY IN RUINS. Reviewing Mariupol's burned out city hall.
Signs Of the Times

A Ukrainian bishop said a Russian-backed separatist rebellion has plunged his country into its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. He warned that “millions of refugees” could soon head for Europe to escape starvation.“Huge numbers are now caught between hammer and anvil;

Decision on gay Scout leaders
Signs Of the Times

Concerns about a potential humanitarian emergency were mounting in late July as people of Haitian descent began to be forced out of the Dominican Republic and into tent cities along the border with Haiti. • A decision by the Boy Scouts of America on July 27 to allow gay troop leaders and employ

Signs Of the Times

As hidden-camera videos of Planned Parenthood staff strategizing to market fetal tissue and organs continued to be released on the Internet, rallies took place in 65 cities across the nation. Pro-life advocates from across the Salt Lake Valley in Utah demonstrated peacefully in front of a Planned Pa

Signs Of the Times

U.S. Catholic leaders have called on Congress to ensure that the federal minimum wage is raised to “improve the financial security of millions of American families.” In a letter, dated July 28, Bishop Thomas Wenski, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellAugust 06, 2015

Pope Francis is convinced that the Holy Spirit is active in popular movements.