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Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in Gaza City on Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“The struggle to secure our daily bread is exhausting. There is a shortage of everything. Nutritious food is non-existent. We have run out of medications and vitamins.”
A damaged inflatable dinghy is seen on Loon Beach in Dunkirk, France, on Nov. 25, 2021, the day after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they attempted to cross the English Channel. (CNS photo/Johanna Geron, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
Condemned by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK as a “cruel plan” that “violates human dignity,” the policy authorizes deporting people who come to the United Kingdom in search of safety to Rwanda.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards his plane at an airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
What happens in the aftermath of the I.D.F.’s Rafah assault remains hard to discern. Where do the Palestinians go next? How will they live? How will they be fed and sheltered?
In downtown Boa Vista, an enormous statue of a garimpeiro panning for gold dominates the square facing the state legislature.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael SwanYone Simidzu
Over the four-year administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, between 2019 and 2023, 570 Yanomami children perished as 20,000 wildcat miners, known in Brazil as garimpeiros, tore up the forest in what should have been protected Yanomami territory, seeking gold, tin and minerals used in contemporary hi-tech products.
Palestinians arrive in the southern Gaza town of Rafah after fleeing an Israeli ground and air offensive in the nearby city of Khan Younis on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel has expanded its offensive in Khan Younis, saying the city is a stronghold of the Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
C.R.S. President Sean Callahan spent a dramatic day in Rafah, meeting with a few of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who have escaped the fighting between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces.
Cardinal Stephen Brislin addresses the press on Jan. 30, describing the position of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference on the Vatican declaration, “Fiducia Supplicans.” Photo courtesy of SACBC Communications Office.
FaithDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
The spokesperson for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said that the conference “has taken a slightly different stand from the rest of Africa” on the Vatican declaration “Fiducia Supplicans.”