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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attends a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City July 22, 2019. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Any source of criticism, whether a journalist, another politician or a member of civil society, can count on a barrage of invective from the president, senior members of his cabinet and often from among the millions of López Obrador’s online followers.
In this Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, photo, pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, right, and Agnes Chow speak to media outside a district court in Hong Kong. Wong, Chow and activist Ivan Lam have been sentenced to jail on Wednesday, over charges related to an unauthorized anti-government protest last year at the city's police headquarters. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“[I]t’s not the end of the fight. Ahead of us is another challenging battleground. We’re now joining the battle in prison along with many brave protestors, less visible yet essential in the fight for democracy and freedom for HK.”
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, is pictured in a Feb. 24, 2014, photo. An inquiry into the Catholic Church in England and Wales released Nov. 10, 2020, criticized Cardinal Nichols and the Vatican for failing to show compassion or leadership in the fight against child abuse. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
After the latest report on the abuse of children by clergy and other in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, survivors are tired of promises and expressions of sorrow. They want structural reform.
FaithNews
The Associated Press
Local health authorities put the the entire monastery under quarantine late last week after the first cases of coronavirus were discovered there.
Destruction in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Nov. 17. (CNS / Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
“The situation is just devastating, and the needs are immense.”
Matheus Vianna and Gabriel Terron pose before a relic of Carlo Acutis in 2015. Photo courtesy of St. Sebastian's church in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
FaithDispatches
Filipe Domingues
Informally called “patron of the internet” for having published stories of Eucharistic miracles online, Blessed Carlo Acutis is now admired by thousands of Brazilians, young and old.