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A local resident gestures outside a residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2023, which was destroyed by a Russian missile strike. (OSV News photo/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
The staff and volunteers of Caritas Ukraine accept a double duty—agents of humanitarian aid but also, with their families, victims and targets of conflict themselves.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
In an exclusive interview on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Archbishop Paul Gallagher emphasizes the need to end the war but says that “a just peace” is not on the horizon.
Supporters of Nigeria’s Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate Peter Obi, chants during an election campaign rally at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Patrick Egwu
Ahead of upcoming general elections on Feb. 25 and March 11, Nigerian Catholics want their next national leaders to address the difficult political and socio-economic issues facing the country.
A woman raises a cross as people wait for the start of an ecumenical prayer service attended by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 4, 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis repeated his pressing call for an end to the violence that has forced millions into camps for refugees or the internally displaced in South Sudan.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis is on an ecumenical pilgrimage for reconciliation and peace with Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury; and Iain Greenshields, the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Civilians celebrate the signing of peace agreement between the Sudan's transitional government and Sudanese revolutionary movements to end decades-old conflict, in Juba, South Sudan, in this Oct. 3, 2020, file photo. (CNS photo/Samir Bol, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyExplainer
Kevin Jackson
The contemporary tension in South Sudan has a complex and disturbing history.