This issue of A Public Witness highlights important voices of opposition to imperial plotting from a variety of religious groups, ranging from Lutherans to Baptists, Anglicans, Catholics, and others.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield criticized the UN Security Council on Tuesday for disproportionately targeting Israel during its monthly sessions.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates are going to the moon together, according to Israeli media reports.
A criminal gang is demanding $1m per head for the safe return of kidnapped missionaries and children.
Lamar Schubert* entered a house in the Moldovan countryside and found a grandmother who was exhausted from dealing with her unruly granddaughter. She was raising the teen alone and said she was a “handful.”
Videophone evaluations are no way to assess someone for assisted suicide, critics have said, also warning that cost-based analyses which claim legal assisted suicide saves money show “callous indifference.”
Spain’s prime minister has vowed to end the practice of prostitution in the country, saying it enslaves women.
The Haitian gang that kidnapped 17 missionaries from the United States and Canada wants $17 million in ransom for their safe release.
The world can no longer ignore the suffering of the people of Haiti, an island that has been exploited and pillaged by wealthier nations for centuries, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
The papal representative to India has ordered Catholic bishops in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to stop priests from engaging in activities that make them “financial and political power bases.”
A Catholic migrant shelter in southern Chiapas state said unidentified individuals forced their way into the premises — the latest act of intimidation against migrant defenders in the region.
