Margaret Chan has led the World Health Organization for the last nine years. During her leadership, the world...
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Women in politics: How the US compares with the world
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Pope Francis and the revolution in Vatican foreign policy
A Vatican conference this week drew mayors from cities across the globe to discuss climate change and modern...
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Meet an Italian nun who’s been helping sex trafficking victims for 20 years
CASERTA, Italy — Another woman had just knocked at the front door of Casa Ruth carrying a terrible, familiar...
Jul 21, 2015
‘I was a slave’: Nigerian women escape sexual bondage in Italy
CASERTA, Italy — She is 32 and demure, with a poise that belies the image of a woman who...
Jul 14, 2015
Italy: Ground zero in Europe’s humanitarian crisis
PORT AUGUSTA, Sicily— Ramadan, the month of reflection and daytime fasting for Muslims, was underway on June 20...
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Turkey’s LGBT community shaken by police crackdown
This article was published in partnership with Mashable. This year’s gay pride celebration in Istanbul was going to be...
Jun 29, 2015
Pope Francis channels Saint Francis to save the planet
ROME — When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires made his infrequent visits to Rome before becoming Pope...
Jun 18, 2015
Fault lines surface as the Vatican’s climate encyclical leaks
BY JASON BERRY AND VALERIA FRASCHETTI ROME — An hour before L’espresso magazine leaked an Italian-language PDF of...
Jun 15, 2015