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Leaders gathered for the Financing for Development (F4D) conference in Spain faced urgent calls from leading economists and ...

For Eric Gill, 1913 was momentous. Within the space of 12 months he became a Catholic; he negotiated a commission to create a ...

The Jesuit director of the African Health and Economic Transformation Initiative (HETI) demanded action to eliminate cervical ...

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My low point in Ghent was at the Museum of Fine Arts, realising I had no way of getting back to the centre of town. I’d come ...

When Pope Francis died in April leaving the Catholic Church leaderless, it entered a state the Church of England had already ...

Church groups appealed for the international community to act to end the culture of impunity and “unpeace” in the Philippines ...

The Pope renewed his solidarity with Ukrainian Catholics and the whole nation after intense missile and drone attacks on the east of the country.

Soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, I met a senior lawmaker in the Likud party who explained to me in detail how Israel would use the ...

I was a war baby, born in 1942. War babies are special. They look back to the pre-war years before they were born and they ...

But it is not directionless. If anything, it has too many directions, but no coherence between them. The obvious symptom of ...