Voices

Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
Signs Of the Times
In the early days of August 2014, as the summer heat scorched the plains of Nineveh, Islamic State militants began ethnic cleansing around the city of Sinjar, driving thousands among the province’s Yazidi, Christian and other religious and ethnic minority communities from their homes in just a
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A Human Rights Watch report finds systemic breakdowns in South Africa for children with disabilities
South Africa ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007.
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There was more evidence of a Francis Effect on religious leadership today with the release of a declaration on climate change meant “to engage the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims on the issue of our time.”
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Belleville's bishop reflects on Ferguson, Sandra Bland and #BlackLivesMatter
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A year after ISIS stormed across Nineveh, survivors wonder when, or if, they will ever be able to return home.
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Here's the "probable cause" behind one of the thousands of U.S. gun homicides
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Bibi, 49, and the mother of five, has been behind bars for the last six years.
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The Savile scandal, much like Cosby’s, reveals the pernicious privilege of celebrity.
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How did a simple traffic stop spiral out of control so quickly, and what does it tell us about how policing works?
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'We are not owners of the earth. We are its stewards.'