Hundreds of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in 2012 unrest in Rakhine state, and many continue to be confined to squalid camps there.
War and Peace
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Street Killings Spike in Philippines, Duterte Challenged by Bishops
Deploring a campaign of extrajudicial killings that has, according to local media, claimed more than 800 lives, the president of the Philippines bishops’ conference issued a direct challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte and his supporters.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Obama’s visit to Hiroshima shows we are not afraid of our history
The first visit by a sitting U.S. president is a reminder of the horrors of nuclear warfare.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Dan Berrigan lived the Gospel as if it were true
Daniel J. Berrigan was one of the most influential Catholics of our time.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
The peacemaking legacy of Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Berrigan undoubtedly stands among the most influential American Jesuits of the past century.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
A Man of Peace: Recalling the life and legacy of Daniel Berrigan
Remembering Dan Berrigan: priest, poet, prophet, antiwar activist, disturber of the peace—and giver of retreats.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Refugees and the joy of hospitality
I could not help but think: What if these were the images that came to mind when Americans heard Muslim refugees?
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
How Queen Elizabeth put forgiveness into action
Forgiveness, of course, is much more than a feeling. It is a series of small, often painful acts that culminate in a conversion of hearts that creates the very possibility of peace. Queen Elizabeth II put forgiveness into action.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
FDR’s ‘Pearl Harbor Speech,’ then and now
On this day 74 years ago, the United States was drawn into a war—a world war—for the second time in nearly 30 years.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
Spires or Tombs?: The editors on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What defense can there be, then, against the awful forces that have now been unleashed with the utter terror of the atomic bomb?