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June 17, 2020

Speaking Out: Reflections on a year of turmoil

Protesters participate in a demonstration in Queen's Park, Toronto.

With so much going on around the world, I am feeling pretty overwhelmed.

Published in YSN: Speaking Out
June 12, 2020

Sisters escape violence

The Charleston Young Adult Cathedral Group and members of the Charleston Police Department help the Daughters of St. Paul clean up after the riots in Charleston, S.C.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The four Daughters of St. Paul who live and work on Charleston’s King Street closed up their books and media store like normal May 30.

Published in International
June 1, 2020

U.S. Bishops 'sickened' by Floyd's death, urge racism be met 'head-on'

A protester in Minneapolis vandalizes an O'Reilly's near the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct May 27, 2020. Two days earlier George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in the hospital May 25.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Catholic bishops said May 29 they "are broken-hearted, sickened and outraged to watch another video of an African American man being killed before our very eyes."

Published in International
April 6, 2017

Paraguay's bishops call for peace after riots, fire at Congress building

Bishops of Paraguay is calling for peace after demonstrators set fire to the country's Congressional building in Asuncion March 31.

ASUNCION, Paraguay – The Bishops of Paraguay made an urgent appeal for peace after hundreds of demonstrators set fire to the National Congress building in Asuncion on the night of March 31.

Published in International