The demands of the demonstrators have quickly expanded into a broad critique of government corruption, incompetence and impunity as human rights abuses and economic malaise continues in Nigeria.
Criminal Justice
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Crime rates in Mexico are higher than ever. Vigilante justice might make that worse.
In Mexico, where both organized and petty crime has exploded to unprecedented levels, vigilante justice has become increasingly common; citizens who gun down assailants during robbery attempts often make headlines as heroes.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Reforms don’t work. The police must be defunded.
The moral legitimacy of modern policing is poisoned by Its racist and anti-worker roots, writes Dwayne David Paul. We must give up the idea that the state provides safety through force and violence.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t abolish the police. Reimagine law enforcement.
Law enforcement in the United States has been tainted by racism, writes Tobias Winright, but we can reimagine and cultivate a new culture of ”just policing.”
Posted inFaith, News
A kidnapped Catholic priest was released after two years. Now he’s praying for his captors.
Father Maccalli was serving in a parish in Bomoanga, Niger, when militant extremists from Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, a branch of al-Qaida in Mali, kidnapped him in September 2018.
Posted inFaith, News
Archbishop Aymond reconsecrates church, altar; calls priest’s acts ‘demonic’
“The desecration of this church and altar is demonic, demonic,” Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said. “Let me be clear, there is no excuse for what took place here. It is sinful, and it is totally unacceptable.”
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Report finds flaws in Catholic Church abuse-prevention plans
In a response provided to The Associated Press, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defended its anti-abuse efforts, which church officials say have helped reduce abuse allegations since 2002 to numbers far lower than several decades ago.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Suburban NY diocese files for bankruptcy amid abuse lawsuits
Jeff Anderson, a lawyer representing people who say they were abused by clergy in the Rockville Centre Diocese, slammed the bankruptcy filing as “strategic, cowardly and wholly self-serving.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Sydney archbishop welcomes Australian plan to protect victims of modern slavery
“Our community cannot be indifferent to modern slavery and human trafficking or our responsibility to eradicate it,” Archbishop Fisher said.
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Louisville archbishop: We all must now work together for racial justice
“There is no question that our nation’s original sin of racism continues to destroy and harm the lives of persons of color and that racism extends through so many systems of our society … educational, economic, religious, housing, criminal justice, voting and employment,” Archbishop Kurtz said.