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Politics & SocietyGoodNews
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Three2Six offers a basic education to undocumented migrant and refugee children, many of whom are barred from South Africa’s public schools because of their residency status.
Pope Francis joins others in holding a banner during an audience at the Vatican June 5, 2023, with the organizers of the Green & Blue Festival. The banner calls for financing a "loss and damage" fund that was agreed upon at the COP27 U.N. climate conference in 2022. The fund would seek to provide financial assistance to nations most vulnerable and impacted by the effects of climate change. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Stewart
With COP28 in the United Arab Emirates imminent, opinion in the developed world on climate change has become deeply polarized. Perhaps exhausted by the digital news cycle, many people have developed compassion fatigue.
A large banner that says "Biden Ceasefire Now" is displayed as Isra Chaker with Amnesty International USA puts roses on fake white body bags, representing those killed in the escalating conflict in Gaza and Israel, in front of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
How to restore peace in Israel and Gaza now after this historic outbreak of violence and mutual suffering? It will take outside pressure on both Israel and Hamas.
Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. ( AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The pastor at a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza organized a hurried baptism celebration for nine children after two unbaptized children were killed in an I.D.F. missile strike on the compound on Oct. 20.
The Rev. Najib Amil, pastor of St. Georges, a Maronite parish in Rmeich in southern Lebanon on Oct. 23. Photo by Hunter Williamson.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
Since the most recent conflict started, Hezbollah has launched rockets into Israel, provoking counterattacks targeting Hezbollah positions that have been established in the hills around these usually quiet Christian agricultural villages along the border.
Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema is sworn-in as Gabon's interim president during a Sept. 4, 2023, ceremony in Libreville, the nation's capital. Nguema seized power Aug. 30 after the military overthrew the incumbent president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, in the former French colony region in West and Central Africa. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Gabon military leaders claimed that electoral malpractice was one of the reasons for the coup, but another surely must be the growing frustration of the general public with a ruling elite who live in luxury while life for average Gabonese, despite its oil riches, remains a struggle.