Fighting Modern-Day Slavery in India

In central India, wild elephants come to isolated tribal villages in the early hours of the night. Tearing down the mud walls and thatched roofs, they eat the villagers’ grain—and sometimes kill them.
Something else comes at night, too. Human… Read More

After Trauma, Iraqi Refugees Look for Healing

In 2006, a 1-year-old boy was playing with neighborhood children in a yard near the family home in Baghdad. Suddenly a white car pulled up: Men came out and took the toddler. "They didn’t take any of the other children,"… Read More

Crisis in Georgia Touches Catholic Hearts

The young people — most of them around 18 years old — have worked from 10 am to 10 pm for six days straight. It’s tedious work — unloading trays of bread loaves, sorting them, roaming from floor to floor… Read More

Building Understanding, One E-Mail at a Time

"I was full of fear about participating in a project with Americans," says Raya Khadish, a Palestinian teen living in one of the world's political hot spots: the West Bank. Thinking that people in the United States disliked Arabs, the 16-year-old girl worried about how she would be perceived.

Raya's fears were shared by other Palestinian teenagers approached to be a part of Cyber Bridges, a Catholic Relief Services program that links high school students in the United States with their counterparts in other countries via e-mail. "We were reluctant to get involved," shares 16-year-old Haitham Abu Arish, who lives in the small village of Beit Ula near Bethlehem.

After Saddam, Trouble for Christians? An Interview with an Iraqi Jesuit

Fr. Clarence Burby is an Iraqi Jesuit priest who has worked for ten years in Jordan and frequently visits Baghdad. This interview was conducted during a March 21 phone call from Amman.
What Saddam Tolerates
Could you describe your involvement… Read More

Crossing Jordan: A Report from the Holy Land

To reach the spot on the Jordan River where archaeologists believe Jesus was probably baptized, you wind through a humid thicket of low tamarisk trees and bamboo-like reeds. Making your way to the chalky-green water, you’ll notice paw prints of… Read More

Middle Eastern Catholics Keep the Faith

Routine Catholicism
In Jordan, as in most Middle Eastern countries, Catholics — and indeed all Christians — are the minority. But in general, their lives in a Muslim society are far more ordinary than Westerners, who see the Middle East… Read More

“A Crisis of Fidelity:” George Weigel on Renewing the U.S. Catholic Church

The Rhythm of LifeLS: Your book indicates that the crisis should impel Catholics to dissent less, to be less inclined to pick and choose the doctrines they'll follow.
GW: I think the crisis should impel everyone to look more seriously… Read More

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