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In a field covered with high grass in northern Uganda, a teenage boy half mad with hunger and exposure and the experience of forced service to a band of killers [...]

Parts I and II This is the first of a two-part series. Part 1 discusses the strains on Christian communities in the Middle East and looks at the conditions Christians [...]

The transition from war to emerging peace in Iraq has been in some respects a disaster. Important parts of the country's heritage were plundered or destroyed in the chaos that [...]

For several weeks earlier this year, NCR editor-at-large Arthur Jones looked through the 12,000 El Salvador cables, dating from 1980 through 1991, released by the U.S. State Department on orders [...]

Before heading out to the annual SOA Watch protest Nov. 20, a group of Loretto sisters squeezed together into Room 243 of the Motel 6 for a 'Prayer for Peace.' [...]

On April 19, as 15 American bishops and cardinals began leaving for Rome to discuss the priest sex abuse crisis with Pope John Paul II, 38-year-old Mark Serrano went back [...]

Editor's note: Chicagoans Jeff Guntzel and Kathy Kelly, co-coordinators of Voices in the Wilderness, along with Catholic Workers Scott Schaeffer-Duffy (Worcester, Mass.), Audrey Stewart (Ithaca, N.Y.), and Grace Ritter (Ithaca, [...]

Almost a year and a half has passed since our friend Samir Dari was gunned down by an Israeli policeman. Samir, an Israeli resident and father of two, approached a [...]

Wealthy Hondurans offer bounty for U.S. priest's head Wealthy landowners on the fertile northern coast of Honduras have taken up a collection to finance the assassination of a U.S. priest [...]

SWITZERLAND: Homosexual survivors of Nazi discrimination and slavery are being urged to seek compensation by an organization that seeks compensation for the Holocaust's non-Jewish victims. 'Homosexual persons who performed slave [...]

COLOMBIA: A committee investigating the 1993 disappearance of three American missionaries in Colombia has called off the inquiry, pointing to 'compelling evidence' the men were killed several years ago. 'Information [...]

Amid evidence that a group of Muslim extremists orchestrated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York City, there have been dozens of reported cases of death threats, [...]

American Muslims across the United States were subject to acts of vandalism and threats of retaliation for the acts of terrorism in Washington and New York Sept. 11. On Sept. [...]

Many prisoners are targeted for sexual exploitation the minute they enter a penal facility; their age, looks, sexual preference and other characteristics mark them as candidates for maltreatment. In a [...]

Interreligious forum offers to mediate talks between government, insurgents With the Nepalese government and Maoist insurgents preparing to begin peace talks for the first time, religious groups in the Himalayan [...]

PHILLIPINES: A Muslim separatist group in the Philippines has beheaded four Filipino Christian hostages abducted Aug. 2 during a village raid. Police said they believe the Abu Sayyaf -- a [...]

A FEDERAL JUDGE has ordered Iran to pay $314.6 million to the family of Fr. Lawrence M. Jenco, director of Catholic Relief Services in Beirut, Lebanon, who was taken hostage. [...]

GUATEMALA: The man who successfully prosecuted three military officers for the murder of Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedara of Guatemala City has fled Guatemala after receiving repeated death threats. Leopoldo [...]

In march to Holy See's U.N. headquarters, group calls for independant fact-finding commission Demanding that the Vatican act to end sexual violence against nuns by priests, about 150 demonstrators marched [...]

Indonesian soldiers stand guard at the gates of U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil's natural gas installation in Lhoksukon in the troubled province of Aceh, April 7, 2001, after a fire broke [...]

A priest is convicted as an accomplice On June 8, three military officers were convicted of the savage beating that left Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera dead in Guatemala City on [...]

Formation programs, victim support planned Leaders of almost 80 religious institutes and orders in southern Africa have committed themselves to take action against clergy who are guilty of sexual abuse [...]

MEXICO: The Vatican said Thursday it welcomes a new investigation by Mexican authorities into the assassination eight years ago of the cardinal archbishop of Guadalajara. 'The Holy See awaits a [...]

ARSON has been blamed for the freshman dormitory fire that killed three students and injured 50 others at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., on Jan. 19, 2000. After [...]

Official says Internet cannot offer sacraments Though the Internet offers the church new possibilities for bringing priests and faithful together in cyberspace, the sacrament of reconciliation will never be administered [...]

3.5 million dead in Congo, report says Nearly three years of warfare in the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of Congo has led to some 3.5 million deaths -- [...]

Dominus Iesus promotes inquiry, say Indian bishops A Vatican document that re-emphasized Christ as savior for all promotes 'free theological inquiry' rather than discourages it, said a statement by the [...]

The trial of five people accused of killing Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera took a dramatic turn April 30 when Ruben Chanax Sontay testified that after months of spying on [...]

A U.S. nun who worked with victims of violence in Guatemala was shot dead in what appears to be a politically motivated murder, said human rights activists in Guatemala. Charity [...]

Leader says churches need to rethink missionary work The head of the World Council of Churches said Christians need to reassess their mission work so they are not perceived as [...]

Sr. Carmen Rueda visits the courtroom each day to make sure the truth gets told. A member of the Guatemalan Conference of Religious, she is part of a team monitoring [...]

Confidential letters and other documents exchanged between the Vatican and Holy Cross Academy in Miami, Fla., a Byzantine Catholic school and site of a recent murder, show that an Eastern [...]

Christians targeted in growing Hindu attacks A four-hour drive from the nearest town, this dirt-poor village in northwestern India is inhabited by 'tribals' (indigenous people), mostly Christian -- and is [...]

Vatican news agency says Bhutan persecutes Christians Government authorities in Bhutan have launched a broad campaign of persecution against minority Christians in the mainly Buddhist South Asian country, said Fides, [...]

A legal battle coming to trial May 7 continues to hold two ex-Salvadoran generals accountable for war crimes during their country's bloody, 12-year civil war. Four Salvadoran refugees now living [...]

Church leaders in India allege harassment Church leaders in quake-hit western India have accused Hindu extremists of concocting new ways to harass and isolate Christians engaged in rehabilitation work. 'The [...]

An apologetic Elizabeth C. Bush was given an open-ended sentence to a juvenile psychiatric facility April 4 after pleading guilty to having shot a classmate at Bishop Neumann High School [...]

New attack made on minority faiths A group of about 20 men broke up a Jehovah's Witnesses service in a private home, looted furniture and religious material and, the next [...]

Focus on nuns' self-esteem, vow of chastity, policies for priests A further document on the sexual abuse of religious sisters by priests in the Catholic church has come to light, [...]

* As the national organizations that represent the leadership of U.S. Catholic sisters, religious priests and brothers, we feel compelled to comment on the reports of sexual abuse of nuns [...]

This is a difficult story to publish and to read, There will be objections to it from all sides. Cultural differences, scandal for the whole church, the unknown full magnitude [...]

It is really news when Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican's chief spokesman, confirms the substance of the year's saddest story so far and by far: The sexual abuse of women religious [...]

Fr. Peter Larkin, a missionary to Africa -- an AIDS sufferer himself disrupted a 1989 Vatican conference in Rome by shouting out and brandishing a poster that said: 'The church [...]

The story told by the former nun from Africa, whom we named Laura to protect her identity, is one person's window into the tragic details of abuse of nuns by [...]

Laura went into religious life in West Africa with high hopes and high ideals, entering a diocesan-owned convent over the objections of her father who wanted her to join an [...]

The Vatican's acknowledgement of abuse of nuns by priests is a welcome development, an essential first step along the path of dealing with the problem and healing deep wounds. Our [...]

In a highly unusual public statement, the Vatican has acknowledged the problem of sexual abuse of women religious by priests. The Vatican's declaration on the matter was released March 20 [...]

AIDS exacerbates sexual exploitation of nuns, reports allege Several reports written by senior members of women's religious orders and by an American priest assert that sexual abuse of nuns by [...]

`There are things that can be seen only with eyes that have cried.' As Rwandan troops poured into the eastern part of what was then Zaire n the fall of [...]

Catholic dissidents sponsor `anti-Jubilee' A coalition of Catholic dissidents and atheist/agnostic groups in Italy sponsored a weeklong 'anti-Jubilee' in Rome in mid-February, protesting what they see as the undue influence [...]