Sandesh Gonsalves, who leads the Jesuit Refugee Service team in Afghanistan, reports that Afghans are struggling in the wake of a “massive” earthquake that struck on Oct. 7. According to U.N. sources, the humanitarian aid system in Afghanistan is already desperately overstretched and underfunded, with over 29 million Afghans in need of assistance.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Facing war up close
Ben Kesling’s ‘Bravo Company’ tells the story of a U.S. Army infantry company before, during and after a difficult deployment to Afghanistan in 2009.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Thousands of Afghan refugees fled to America in search of a new home. Too many are still waiting.
Many faith-based organizations are among those working to provide assistance. Returning to Afghanistan is simply not an option.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
The U.S. must do more to help the Afghan people—even if that means working with the Taliban.
The New Taliban is about the same as the Old Taliban, but punishing the regime indiscriminately could push Afghanistan toward economic collapse and lead to another refugee crisis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I started working as an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. military at 16. My family still isn’t safe from the Taliban.
Though the families of former interpreters for the U.S. military are being targeted by the Taliban, there is still no established pathway for bringing them to the United States on a permanent basis.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
As a Marquette law student, I assisted Afghan refugees. What I learned about service and unconditional love will last a lifetime.
There are no words to describe the difference between reading about the Taliban’s merciless destruction of Afghan citizens and hearing the same stories spoken from someone who has suffered at their hands.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Afghan refugees find welcome at Franciscan retreat center in New Mexico: ‘We see this as part of the Gospel call’
“Pope Francis has said to reach out to the margins and help those who are in need, the refugees, the displaced. And we have a retreat center that has lots of space.”
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Young Afghan mother and Catholic Charities volunteer killed by oncoming truck
A retired nurse who felt called to help Afghan refugees and the young Afghan mother she embraced as a mentor were killed in a truck accident while out taking a walk Feb. 15.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. troops may be gone, but Catholic Relief Services continues to aid desperate Afghans under Taliban rule
C.R.S. is beginning an emergency campaign to get food on tables and crops in the field as a hunger catastrophe looms in Afghanistan.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Lessons out of Afghanistan: Democracy cannot be exported by force—no matter what the ‘experts’ say.
Any exit from Afghanistan was bound to be fraught. That does not reduce our responsibility to assess the Biden administration’s missteps.