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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 29, 2023
Nicaragua
The Pope and the Church in Nicaragua
The repression of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua continues to deepen, but Pope Francis has not responded with the levels of support that are needed.
September 20, 2015
Cuba
The Pope’s Cuba Test
The Pope’s visit to Cuba is of course a test of the regime: how much of a crackdown will it undertake to prevent him from seeing a single demonstrator or dissident? But it is also a test of Pope Fra…
February 14, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Odds on an African Pope
British, Irish, and Australian bookmakers will place odds on anything. They are already looking at possible successors to Pope Benedict XVI. The odds change by the minute, but the three favorites in…
December 4, 2017
Southeast Asia
Reflecting on Pope Francis’s Trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh
There was no way that Pope Francis’s trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh last week was going to be uneventful. The trip came in the midst of a massive spasm of violence in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State—…
November 27, 2017
Southeast Asia
Questions for Pope Francis’s Trip to Myanmar This Week
In an earlier post today, I noted that there remain many questions about the memorandum of understanding that Dhaka and Naypyidaw have supposedly negotiated, allowing at least some Rohingya to return…
