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April 21, 2014

Vol. 210 / No. 14

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, second from right, visit Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey
Current Comment
The EditorsApril 09, 2014

Turkey’s troubles are worrisome for those looking for models of authority in the region.

Of Other Things

The T-shirt has become a defining symbol of our global, interconnected world and church.

Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders hold a prayer service and vigil at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Mich.
Signs Of the Times

Pew researchers report that six of the world’s 12 nations with a “very high degree” of religious diversity can be found in the Asia-Pacific region—Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, China and Hong Kong; five are in sub-Saharan Africa—Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Ivory Coa

MOTHER AND CHILD. Souad Mohamed, a Syrian refugee, with her her baby inside a tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, December 2013.
Signs Of the Times

The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon passed the one million mark on April 3.

Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt shot dead in Syria.
Signs Of the Times

Frans van der Lugt, a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit who refused to leave war-torn Syria, was beaten by armed men and killed with two bullets to the head, according to a message sent from the Jesuits’ Middle East Province to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome on April 7. • Linda LeMura, named pres

COMMUNION. Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’malley at the border fence in Nogales, Ariz.
Signs Of the Times

While comprehensive immigration reform remains stalled in Congress, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined residents, migrants and advocates from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on April 1. There they celebrated Mass together, remembering thousands of migra

Venezuela's President Maduro talks with Archbishop Padron during meeting in Caracas.
Signs Of the Times

In a hard-hitting statement released on April 2, Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church accused President Nicolas Maduro’s government of “totalitarian” tendencies and “brutal repression” of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has resulted in the de