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October 13, 2022

Brazil
A Test for Democracy: Brazilian Presidential Elections

Ahead of the October 30 runoff, our panelists discuss Brazil’s presidential elections, the implications for Brazilian democracy, and how the results will affect relations with the United States.

Play  Towels with the images of presidential candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are seen for sale at a street in Brasilia

July 11, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram Responsible in Jos Bloodshed?

Over last weekend and continuing into Monday, there was horrific bloodshed around Jos in Plateau state in central Nigeria.  The dead, who may number in the hundreds, include two state-level political…

Security forces confront angry citizens at a roadblock after a bombing at St. Finbarr's Catholic Church in the Rayfield suburb of the Nigerian city of Jos March 11, 2012.

December 27, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram Christmas Bombings

A car burns at the scene of a bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, Suleja, just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters)   While I…

Boko Haram Christmas Bombings

June 4, 2015

Saudi Arabia
A New Church in the Emirates

This week it was announced that a second Catholic church has been completed in Abu Dhabi and will be inaugurated with a mass on June 11. The first, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, was donated by the ruling f…

September 25, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
More Nigerian Church Bombings

On Sunday, September 24, immediately after an early mass, a suicide bomber attacked St. John’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bauchi. Five were reported killed with another forty-six injured.  Doctors w…

A woman cries during a mass funeral for the victims of Christmas day bombing at St Theresa Catholic church, outside Nigeria's capital Abuja 01/02/2012.