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The International Monetary Fund, whose board will meet this weekend in Washington, D.C., continues to use its role as a gatekeeper for rich country aid to impose questionable, and often downright harmful, conditions onto poor countries. For example, the IMF has often imposed “wage bill ceilings” that limit how much money a government can spend…

On April 9, 2003, Saddam Hussein’s government collapsed as the U.S. military swept into Baghdad. The next day, President Bush delivered a triumphant “message to the Iraqi people.” In it, he said: The goals of our coalition are clear and limited. We will end a brutal regime, whose aggression and weapons of mass destruction make…

The latest news on the President-Congress, Special report-civil right murder, congress, Iraq-war, Iraq-President & Congress, Iran, Immigration, Darfur, Presidential politics, middle east, US Russia, Assisted suicide, special report-civil rights murders, and select Op-Eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq-war. Troops Backed by Helicopters Battle Insurgents in…

Where are the gentle spirits and the prayerful souls among our leaders? When will we trust the qualifications of credible lifestyle and courageous witness as much as articulation of programs and financial expertise? When will we die to the styles of government and authority that characterize our secular society and choose the style of the…

Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished. – Proverbs 17:5-5 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

The 50-year Colombian armed conflict pits government armed forces and right-wing paramilitary groups against leftist guerrillas. Church people, part of the unarmed civilian population struggling to stay outside the conflict, are caught in the cross-fire. Since 2000, the United States has provided nearly $5 billion in aid to the Colombian government, roughly 80% of it…

Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ – it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. This time I watched it in the context of Zimbabwe, a country that is being beaten and brutalized by…

The latest news on immigration, Iraq, Iran, U.S. military, Presidential politics, Guantanamo, Sudan, Farmworkers, the church and sex offenders, and select Op-Eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Immigration. Bush Makes Push To Resolve Status Of Illegal Workers – “President Bush outlined the latest version of his…

My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the…

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to…
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