“You can’t understand [border realities] by talking to government officials. You have to talk to the people who are working with migrants and hear about the suffering.”
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The church is ‘under attack’ in Myanmar
“No one is safe from their attacks. Anyone they are suspicious of, anyone they think are against them, they will arrest, they will torture and some of them are even shot to death.”
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Catholic Church in Colombia calls for peace amid waves of anti-government protests
What began on April 28 as a public reaction to a tax reform proposal from President Iván Duque has expanded into a massive mobilization of broad discontent.
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The Indigenous people of Canada want an apology from Pope Francis
The discovery of the unmarked graves of First Nations’ children led to renewed calls for a papal apology in Canada to respond to the legacy of residential schools and revived questions about the church’s role in colonialism in Canada.
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How (and why) 8,000 migrants breached the Spanish-Moroccan border — and what it says about Europe’s migration crisis
Relations between Morocco and Spain are complex, fraught with clashing political and economic interests—with thousands of migrants caught in the middle.
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The Catholic Church wants air time in Zimbabwe. But the government is (still) saying no.
Zimbabwe’s broadcasting authorities promise to liberalize national media, but those concessions have not been extended to religious broadcasters at Catholic dioceses.
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Meet the Catholic sister who is willing to risk her life (again) to stop the violence in Myanmar
Sister Nu Tawng describes a nation living in fear of its own government, where arrest may come at any time or for any reason.
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Canada’s bishops withheld aid from groups they thought had ties to abortion. Repairing relationships is proving difficult.
Canada’s bishops remain committed to the success of Development and Peace “as a Canadian, Catholic organization in communion with the Bishops and the universal Church”
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Father Stan Swamy, 84-year-old Jesuit in Mumbai prison, may have Covid-19
Stan Swamy, S.J., the 84-year-old Indian priest and human rights activist who has been held in Taloja prison in Mumbai since October, is experiencing symptoms of Covid-19.
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Catholic sisters (with M.D.s) are on the frontline in the fight against Covid-19 in India
During this second surge medical and support teams had no time to be anxious about themselves as scores of Covid-19 cases began arriving at Holy Family’s emergency room doors.