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Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).
A student looks at his cellphone while walking at Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, March 31, 2022. (CNS photo/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A Nicaraguan judge described the Jesuit university as a “center of terrorism,” accusing its administrators and educators of “betraying the trust of the Nicaraguan people” and of “transgressing against the constitutional order.”
FaithFeatures
Kevin Clarke
Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
Sadly, the church of El Salvador can offer any number of priests, men and women religious and lay people to choose from to hold up as modern exemplars of Christian self-sacrifice.
Reflective photos of clouds
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Migrants walk along concertina wire as they try to cross the Rio Grande at the Texas-U.S. border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
In an email exchange between a Texas state trooper and his supervisor, the trooper reported receiving orders in encounters with migrating people that he called “inhumane.”
Pope Francis greets Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on Feb. 18, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Kevin Clarke
What obligation does the United States still owe these Christians and other Iraqi religious minorities? What is it willing to do to assist and protect them?
woman praying in a field
FaithScripture Reflections
Kevin Clarke
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
A policy of deterrence through intentional neglect has not had an impact on migration, but it has resulted in far more losses among migrants and refugees.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
How the international media covers the migration tragedy unfolding in the Atlantic in comparison to coverage of the Titan tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea seems a valid question to probe.
Kassem Abo Zeed holds up a phone displaying a photo of himself with his wife, Ezra, who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, in the southern port city of Kalamata on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Abo Zeed traveled from Hamburg, Germany to try and find his wife and her missing brother, Abdullah Aoun. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
At the end of 2022, according to the United Nations, more than 108 million people worldwide “were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order.” The figure represents an increase of almost 20 million people over 2021.