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Volunteers are seen in early May preparing meals in a damaged neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. Ambassadors to the Vatican from around the world were called together Oct. 15, 2020, to hear from Cardinal Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio to Syria, about the humanitarian disaster in Syria. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)

World

After 11 years of conflict, Syria 'off media's radar,' cardinal says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 16, 2022|2 Min Read

A "Help Wanted" sign is seen in Brandon, Fla., June 1, 2021. A Feb. 9, 2022, statement developed by a group of nearly 100 institutional investors coordinated by the New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility lays out what the group expects to see from corporations as they make a "just transition" to a more sustainable economy. (CNS photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)

Faith

New statement points to how companies can make a 'just transition'

Mark Pattison|Feb 14, 2022|4 Min Read

British human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers. (Courtesy photo via CNA)

World

Human rights activist: Diplomatic relations between Vatican and China would be ‘totally unacceptable’

Catholic News Agency|Feb 7, 2022|5 Min Read

Uyghur women work in a cloth factory in Hotan county, Xinjiang province, China. (Azamat Imanaliev/Shutterstock via CNA)

Senate sends Uyghur forced labor bill targeting China to Biden’s desk

Katie Yoder|Dec 16, 2021|3 Min Read

President Joe Biden speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping from the White House in Washington Nov. 15, 2021. The White House announced Dec. 6 that the U.S. will stage a diplomatic boycott of the Feb. 4-20 Winter Olympics to protest Chinese human rights abuses. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Religious freedom commission welcomes U.S. diplomatic boycott of Olympics

Catholic News Service|Dec 7, 2021|3 Min Read

Ethiopian Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat is pictured in a Feb. 15, 2017, photo. Bishop Medhin has called for an immediate end to aerial bombardment in Tigray, the Ethiopian region where a deadly conflict has unfolded since November 2020. (CNS photo/Petterik Wiggers, courtesy CNEWA)

World

Bishop calls for an immediate end to bombings in Ethiopia's Tigray region

Fredrick Nzwili|Nov 29, 2021|2 Min Read

Cardinal Timothy Dolan. (Stephen Driscoll/CNA)

Faith

Human rights begin in the womb, Cardinal Dolan says

Jonah McKeown|Oct 23, 2021|2 Min Read

Cupola of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. (CNA)

World

European court rules Vatican cannot be sued in local courts over clerical abuse

Catholic News Agency|Oct 12, 2021|4 Min Read

Sayed Abdul Wase Majidi hugs his nephew Sayed Mustafa Miri, 38, after Majidi arrives from Fort Lee, Va., at the Sacramento International Airport in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 5, 2021. Sayed Abdul Wase Majidi is one of a couple of hundred Afghan interpreters and translators brought to the United States to be resettled as thousands more who helped U.S. troops are still under threat in Afghanistan as they wait to be evacuated. (CNS photo/Brittany Hosea-Small, Reuters)

World

Vatican urges countries to accept refugees from Afghanistan

Courtney Mares|Aug 25, 2021|5 Min Read

Ingwenyama Mswati III has been king of Eswatini since 1986. Pro-democracy activists in the country previously known as Swaziland, have vowed Tuesday June 29, 2021, to intensify demonstrations against the monarchy until it makes democratic reforms and unbans all opposition parties. (Wikimedia Commons)

World

Small African nation of Eswatini is facing major crisis, bishop says

Carol Glatz|Jul 19, 2021|3 Min Read

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Senate passes legislation restricting imports from Uyghur forced labor

Catholic News Agency|Jul 15, 2021|3 Min Read

People clash with plainclothes police during protests in Havana July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. sanctions. (CNS Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, Reuters)

World

Bishops say Cubans are starving for both ‘bread and freedom’

John Lavenburg|Jul 14, 2021|5 Min Read

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