India and China are not the only countries with lop-sided sex ratios due to sex-selective abortions. Georgia, a former member of the USSR in the Caucasus with a population of about 4.5 million, has a distorted sex ratio at birth…
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For decades the Indian government has been encouraging women to be voluntarily sterilized – and they have coopted state and local governments to help persuade the women. Sadly, it seems that on the ground women are being coerced into having…
Editor’s Note: The Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier was a week ago, but we at CE thought that this meditation by Father Broom was too good to miss out on. Read and be inspired!
The last words that St.…
Ireland contra mundum – or more accurately, mundus contra Hiberniam – seems to be the burden of shrill, not to say lurid headlines circling the globe since Wednesday of last week, when the story broke about the tragic death of…
