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A Taliban fighter holds his weapon in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2022, one year after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Kevin Clarke
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.
The first cargo ship to leave Ukraine since the Russian invasion, the Razoni crosses the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, on Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sean Callahan, president and C.E.O. of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, returned last month from tours and consultations with C.R.S. partners in Ukraine, Ghana and Ethiopia.
FaithInterviews
Nicholas D. Sawicki
Fra’ John Dunlap is one of the few professed religious of the Order of Malta and is the first North American to lead the Order as the lieutenant of the grand master.
Protesters stand on a vandalised police water canon truck and shout slogans at the entrance to president's official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope joined the Sri Lanakan Catholic bishops in an “appeal for peace” and to the country’s political leaders “not to ignore the cry of the poor and the needs of the people.”
Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy inside Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia church in Odesa. Photo by Matthieu de La Rochefoucauld.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
“The church of Odesa shares the pain of its inhabitants. The church is not a building; it is people,” said Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy, a spokesperson for the Orthodox Diocese of Odesa.
A mother helps her malnourished son stand after he collapsed near their hut in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya, on May 12, 2022. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths visited the area on Thursday to see the effects of the drought which the U.N. says is a severe climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Long before Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, smaller conflicts have been displacing people and disrupting growing seasons and food markets around the world.