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Indigenous peoples
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The Native American fight for survival in a white world
Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel creates an extraordinary portrait of sacrifice and costly reconciliation.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Indian Jesuit arrested by counter-terrorism task force
The Society of Jesus and the local church in Ranchi, India are calling for the immediate release of Stan Swamy, S.J.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
Over the past two years, 31 people from the municipality of Tocoa, on the lush north shore of Honduras, have faced criminal prosecution as a result of their opposition to an iron ore mining project in the Botaderos Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National Park.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
In Canada a religious community dedicated to social justice faces its last days
Scarboro missionaries in Canada are known for living the Gospel and contributing powerfully to social justice efforts in some of the most impoverished regions of the world.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic community split over ‘amicable agreement’ for 1997 massacre of Indigenous peoples
The attack on a pacifist community during prayer and the sheer cruelty — with the assailants chasing victims through a cloud forest for hours and not even sparing four pregnant women — highlighted the struggles of Indigenous communities in Chiapas.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The federal government is about to execute the only Native American man on death row—despite his tribe’s wishes.
The Catholic Church and the Navajo Nation stand together in opposition to the execution of Lezmond Mitchell because it, like the racism which brought his death sentence to pass, erodes the sanctity of human life, writes Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Indigenous men in Honduras are being abducted. Are the police to blame?
Garifuna villages along the north coast of Honduras have set up roadblocks to demand answers about the enforced disappearances. “You took them alive, we want them alive!” protesters shouted.
Posted inFaith, Television
Nicholas Black Elk and the quest for justice
This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
We have a story to tell: Indigenous scholars, activists speak up amid toppling of Serra statues
California Native people prayed at a makeshift altar before activists took down the statue of Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan credited with spreading the Catholic faith but also seen as part of an imperial conquest.