Afghanistan: A girls’ school is the story of a village
SAMYA KULLAB, of Associated Press, reports from the village of Salar in Wardak province…
Haiti’s hospitals close to collapse as fuel remains scarce
Port-au-PrinceReuters Desperate to have her infant son Pierre admitted to hospital to treat his anemia and diarrhea, Mirlande Cherie set out two weeks ago on an odyssey to find a medical facility that had not already been shuttered by Haiti’s fuel shortages. Cherie rode on the back of a motorcycle with Pierre in her arms […]
Essay: A Catholic theologian argues for a death row inmate’s right to have the pastor’s touch in the execution chamber
DORIAN LLYWELYN, president of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, argues, in an article first published on The Conversation, highlights in the importance of physical touch for those facing execution…