On May 25th, Pope Leo XIV published his encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas, which takes a drastically different stance on international conflict than previously expressed by the Catholic Church. In the encyclical, Leo wrote that just war theory, a centuries old list of criteria determining how to wage war morally, is
Last week, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an active outbreak of the Ebola virus in the northeast region of the country. The first cases were found in Ituri Province, though the disease has spread in the last seven days to nearby provinces
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino issued a statement last Thursday calling for calmer relations with China amidst rising tensions over the increase in holding and inspection of ships carrying the Panamanian flag (Reuters). This comes a week after United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused China of “bullying… Panama-flagged
