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A large crowd gathers as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a rally at Zocalo Square in Mexico City March 9, 2025. (OSV News photo/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
David Agren
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s deft handling of the mercurial U.S. president has sent her approval rating soaring, reaching 85 percent in the latest survey from the newspaper El Financiero.
A Catholic Relief Services worker distributes shelter material to a woman in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 21, 2024, displaced by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Mohammad Al Hout for CRS)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Musk’s federal takeover produced significant collateral damage. Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. church’s global humanitarian relief and development agency, had been U.S.A.I.D.’s biggest faith-based international partner.
People protest against a law to legalize euthanasia as the Spanish Parliament prepares to vote on it in Madrid in this Dec. 17, 2020, file photo. On March 18, 2021, Spain's parliament legalized physician-assisted suicide. (CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Bridget Ryder
“Just don’t open the door. They can’t enter without a court order,” Ms. Castellanos recalled her advice to Maricarmen. “If she had opened the door that day her daughter would be dead.”
Syrian government forces are deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?”
At a CEPA immersion tour in North Carolina in 2023, Sarah Richards (left), from the University of Dayton, listens in as Eric Henry (far right), president of TS Designs, describes how an ethical supply chain delivers college swag to Dayton students.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Céire Kealty
Can you actually achieve a triple bottom line—people, planet and profit—in clothing manufacture? CEPA shows the way.
A girl who was part of a procession holds the flag of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day in Dublin March 17, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Hargaden
Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts, parades and art installations, one figure is strikingly absent—Patrick himself.