Forty-nine young lives cut down in Orlando in a collection of minutes. How even to fathom that; how to fix it?
It is hard to imagine the U.S. government would ignore such persistent poverty levels on the mainland.
“If you boycott Israel,” said Gov. Cuomo, “New York will boycott you.”
It is only natural that longtime residents are wary of the new hipster on the block.
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan and Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in a joint statement, stressed that "the wound of forced emigration is still bleeding."
Ten months after an agreement ended armed conflict between forces loyal to South Sudan’s top political rivals, South Sudan’s bishops called for the nation to “rise above negativity” and pull together to achieve lasting peace in the world’s youngest nation. The prelates
UNICEF reported on June 17 that 92 percent of some 7,600 children who made the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from Libya so far this year have been unaccompanied by adults, up from 68 percent last year. • The Rev. Hermann Scheipers, the last surviving priest to have been imprisoned