Catholic Charities U.S.A. spent decades building a domestic network to assist the social integration of incoming refugees. Three years of declining numbers and obliterated budgets took a sledgehammer to all that.
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Hurricanes continue to batter Guatemala. Poverty (and poor government planning) are making things worse.
Guatemala’s vulnerability is natural disasters is compounded by climate change and historical inequities in land distribution—the poorest live in the most dangerous locations where many are threatened by mudslides.
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How should France respond to latest terror attacks? Look to the Catholic Church.
Could French president Macron’s moves to counter the threat of homegrown Islamic extremism in the end “boomerang,” leading only to greater alienation of Muslim youth from French society?
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This Manchester United footballer is helping feed U.K.’s hungry schoolchildren. His opposition: Boris Johnson.
In England, Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has become a hero off the pitch after championing kids and families living in poverty, refusing to forget that his own background was not much different.
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Pope Francis makes a remarkable journey to Mexico’s margins
His presence was a message to the indigenous communities here: Pope Francis has heard of your suffering and he has said, “Enough.”