“For Christians, nonviolence is not merely tactical behavior but a person’s way of being.”
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The Syrian people are still suffering. Here’s how Trump could help.
The Trump administration should reconsider its shortsighted and inhuman restrictions on refugee resettlement
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Cold War tensions resurface after poisoning of Russian defector
The nerve-agent attack on two Russians in the cathedral city of Salisbury has Britons feeling as though they are back in the pages of a James Bond novel.
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Bishop accuses U.N. troops of rape in the Central African Republic
“Women are selling their bodies to the Blue Helmets out of desperation,” said Bishop Juan Aguirre Munoz of Bangassou.
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Is a restored military cause for concern or hope in Haiti?
Given the army’s past repression of the Haitian people, the military’s return has been a cause of concern to many. Protesters have taken to the streets, calling for leaders to shift the defense budget money to education.
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Congo’s bishops: Two killed during protests against ‘dictatorship’
Congo’s bishops said a young Catholic was killed at point-blank range and another was shot dead while trying to return home from anti-government protests.
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Pope calls for immediate end to the violence in Syria
February has been one of the most violent months in the seven years of conflict.
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South Sudanese leaders don’t know how to make peace, say Catholic bishops
While reiterating that the killings must stop, the bishops warned that the leaders did not know how to make peace, were confused, traumatized and feared peace.
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Congo’s bishops denounce attempts to discredit church leaders
The bishops condemned the “bloody violence” used by government security forces to suppress marches by mostly Catholic protesters on Dec. 31 and Jan. 21
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Church leaders and U.N. officials decry escalating situation in Syria
As Syria’s war soon enters its eighth year, the conflict is escalating in the country’s north, between Turkey and the Kurds, and in the south, between Iran and Israel.