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Barbara Fraser - Catholic News Service
Catholic bishops from South America are warning that the pandemic will engender "a humanitarian and environmental tragedy" is something is not done to alleviate conditions particularly in the Amazon basin.
Politics & SocietyNews
Andy Telli - Catholic News Service
In the midst of the pandemic, Tennessee is grappling with the aftereffects of a crippling tornado.
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
The pandemic's impact on labor trafficking is less certain, but the advocates warn that people desperate for work may be prone to employment schemes in which they are cheated out of promised wages.
Displaced Syrian children are seen at a camp in Idlib on April 14, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Internally displaced people, those forced to flee their homes, but who do not cross into another country, still often need protection and special assistance, including from the church, said a new Vatican document released May 5. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“Pope Francis gives enormous importance to the plight of the millions of forgotten men, women and children forced to migrate within their own countries and known internationally as ‘internally displaced people.’”
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Thomas J. Healey
The coronavirus pandemic should not make us feel helpless, writes Thomas J. Healey. Even small acts of generosity can have a powerful impact on individuals around the world.
People transporting the remains of deceased loved ones wait in a slow moving line outside Jardines de la Esperanza Cemetery to hold burials in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 6, 2020. Guayaquil, a normally bustling city that has become a hot spot in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, also has untold numbers dying of unrelated diseases that can't be treated because hospitals are overwhelmed. (AP Photo/Luis Perez)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Eduardo Campos Lima
The C.E.B.s have been assisting the most vulnerable victims of the pandemic on multiple levels. In El Salvador, they have been gathering food and money in order to prepare for a possible hunger crisis.