On June 12, Eritrean authorities closed all 22 of the nation’s church-run health care facilities.

High-level support and almost three-quarters of a million dollars in donations poured in Sunday for the German captain of a migrant rescue ship who was arrested after she defied repeated orders to stay out of Italy and struck a police boat while bringing 40 people to port.

“You don’t have to regulate your borders with cruelty and inhumanity. There’s no need for that.”

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City expressed gratitude that lives were spared and that all residents of the Missouri capital are accounted for following a devastating tornado.

Caritas Internationalis is increasingly being called to help with challenges provoked by climate change. “Our food production is at stake.”

Helping children who lost their parents when a pair of cyclones hit Mozambique is among the most difficult work in the aftermath, an aid worker said.