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Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, delivers a speech in Henin-Beaumont, France, April 23, after the first round of the French presidential elections. (CNS photo/Oliver Hoslet, EPA)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
There is considerable overlap between French conservatives and French Catholics.
Connie Johnson, center, chairwoman of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, campaigns against the death penalty in an Oklahoma City neighborhood on Oct. 16, 2016. RNS photo by Bobby Ross Jr.
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Bobby Ross Jr. - Religion News Service
Oklahomans overwhelmingly support capital punishment, despite highly publicized problems with lethal-injection drugs that prompted state officials to put a temporary moratorium on executions in 2015.
ishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M., gestures during a March 23 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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Catholic News Service
The Congolese bishops voiced their concern over rising tension in Congo after President Joseph Kabila unilaterally nominated Bruno Tshibala as prime minister over the objection of opposition parties.
Mexico's former Veracruz state Gov. Javier Duarte, center, is escorted by agents of the local Interpol office inside a police car as they arrive at Guatemala City, early Sunday, April 16, 2017. Duarte, who is accused of running a ring that allegedly pilfered from state coffers, has been detained in Guatemala after six months as a fugitive and a high-profile symbol of government corruption. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Mexicans are no stranger to widespread corruption, which costs the country a staggering $100 billion per year, according to last year’s National Corruption Forum. Governors are especially likely to become involved with graft.
Politics & SocietyNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“Most of those people—my family, extended family—are not pro-choice. You think I’m kicking them out of the Democratic Party?”
Ajok Uogu feeds her 2-year old daughter, Awok, a nutritional supplement on April 26 in St. Daniel Comboni Catholic Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
Last June, fighting broke out between soldiers of the Sudan People's Liberation Army and a mixture of local opposition groups and members of other ethnic communities.