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Syrian security forces secure the area near St. Joseph Church in the Bab-Sharqi neighborhood of Damascus, Syria June 23, 2025, following the June 22 suicide bombing at Mar Elias Church. (OSV News photo/Firas Makdesi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
A brief opening to shore up progress toward stability in Syria unfortunately coincides with Trump administration decisions to sharply curtail humanitarian and development assistance and to terminate the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A Palestinian man stands next to a burned car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 26, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
On July 7, settlers carried out a daytime arson attack on the Church of St. George and a Byzantine Christian cemetery. The fifth-century church is “one of the oldest and most venerated places of worship for Christians in Palestine.”
Workers unload food commodities from Catholic Relief Services and USAID in the village of Behera, near Tulear, Madagascar, Oct. 22, 2016. (OSV News Photo/Nancy McNally, Catholic Relief Services)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Though other factors are surely at play, church leaders in Nigeria insist the attacks are part of a systematic campaign to drive Christians from the region or force their conversion.
Soldiers of Ukraine's 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade fire a rocket toward Russian positions at the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, File)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
It is fair to say that the global tab for addressing the world’s acute humanitarian or ecological needs pales in comparison to the eye-watering amounts governments unabashedly dole out for bombs and bullets.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at the White House in Washington April 14, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
”Do not collaborate in the fight against migrants by the great colonizing countries.”