The Witness of the Cedars
This issue of A Public Witness takes you on a journey to Lebanon to consider the living cedars in a land filled with the ruins of empires — including the magnificent Baalbek.
Faith-Based Health Organizations Defend At-Risk AIDS Initiative From Republicans
Many faith-based organizations opposed to abortion are fighting for PEPFAR, an AIDS program that some Republicans now claim provides abortion services.
Iraqi Christian Religious Leaders Demand an International Investigation Into Deadly Wedding Fire
The tragedy was the latest to hit Iraq’s Christian minority, which has dwindled to a fraction of its former size over the past two decades.
Vatican Presses World Leaders at UN to Work on Rules for Lethal Autonomous Weapons
AI is a growing interest for the U.N., as for national governments, multinational groups, tech companies, and others.
Death Comes in Clusters
The U.S. continues to not only ignore the Convention on Cluster Munitions but also to ship the weapons to Ukraine. So this issue of A Public Witness uncovers the history of cluster bombs and the moral failure of nations that continue to utilize them.
African Churches Urge US Congress to Reauthorize PEPFAR
The leaders are writing in response to a letter sent to Congress in June by religious groups and legislators asserting that the funds for the program were financing family planning and reproductive health programs, including abortion.
Catholics in Ukraine Struggle as Pope Francis’ Approval Rating Is at an All-Time Low
Pope Francis and Ukraine have a different vision for peace in the region.
At African Climate Summit, Faith Leaders Join Demands for Climate Justice
‘Matters of climate change cannot be politicized, reduced to economies,’ said a Lutheran priest, but instead should be ‘treated as a matter of life and death.’
‘Hope Is Possible.’ Pope Francis Joins Religious Leaders in Mongolia to Promote Harmony
Pope Francis’ message for religious dialogue and freedom in Mongolia takes place as the neighboring Chinese government cracks down on faith groups.
France’s Education Minister Bans Long Robes in Classrooms. They’re Worn Mainly by Muslims
French authorities have increasingly moved to defend secularism, a constitutional principle meant to guarantee religious neutrality in a multicultural nation.