DR CONGO — Eight indigenous Pygmies, members of the Batwa community, have been convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms for attempting to regain access to their traditional lands. Centuries before other African ethnic groups arrived, the Pygmies were living...
WEST BANK — In recent months Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. According to the BBC, nearly three million Palestinian Arabs live in the West Bank under a combination of self-rule and Israeli...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, June 18, the United States Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). DACA offers legal protection for some 650,000 young immigrants living in the...
June 5 marked three years since the Diocese of Cúcuta, Colombia opened its Divine Providence House of Transit in response to the thousands of Venezuelan migrants streaming into Colombia. In those three years, the charitable ministry has provided more than 3.5 million...
Even a pandemic that affects everyone affects the poor more. Workplace closures, travel restrictions, and strain on limited healthcare resources have disproportionately weakened the financial straits of those least able to weather the crisis. As The Economist...
Photo courtesy of the UN The Memorial Day death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police offices sparked a powder keg of long-simmering racialtensions in the U.S. and worldwide. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in all...
