Global Issues

Conrado Olivera and Jed Koball Lawsuits help corporations run roughshod over governments and the environment. ...

Lynne Hybels Few people I know believe peace in the Holy Land is really possible—unless it begins with Israeli and Palestinian Christians ...

In a new photo series called “A World Journey,” photographer Jim Stipe documents the people that have made an impact on his travels. Particularly in low income countries, Jim exposes the faces and lives that h ...

JAY NEWTON-SMALL For  Time Magazine ,  Jay Newton-Small  reports on the upcoming G8 summit: Not since the oil shocks that first brought the world’s superpowers togeth ...

For The Atlantic, scholar Michael Fullilove on China's poor human rights record and why it matters. For  The Atlantic , scholar  Michael Fullilove  on China's poor hu ...

From  Agence France-Presse  late last night: The soldiers who staged a coup in Mali in March said they had defeated a counter-coup by foreign-backed forces loyal to the ousted president in fighting that left 14 people dead.  They called th ...

But the main thrust for engaging the fight against malaria is that it is a preventable disease. When I moved to DC, I –like perhaps most other 20-somethings—imagined this place as a hu ...

Wes Granberg-Michaelson A U.S. church delegation this winter discovered a Cuba at the crossroads of change. T ...

Following Pope Benedict XVI's recent trip to Cuba, U.S. Catholic bishops are pushing the State Department to lift the 50-year Cuban embargo in order to improve religious liberty and human rights for the Cub ...

The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America's 55,000 Catholic nuns, saying that the group was not speaking out strongly enough against gay marriage, abortion a ...