August 17, 2016
I had the privilege of joining over a 1,000 Catholic religious sisters last week at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Assembly in Atlanta, Ga. – the annual meeting of the heads of women’s religious orders around the country.
Politics
Photo:An Afghan policeman stands guard at the entrance of a local school sponsored by Japan's International Cooperation Agency in Kandahar City on May 11, 2010.
Photo:Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water.
Photo:Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid an official visit to Zambia in February 2012 and here meets with the UN Country Team made up of the heads of UN agencies in that country.
Photo: A member of FIB stands guard in the Beni region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where the UN backed the FARDC in an operation (March 2014).
Photo:Student leaders Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow chant slogans before their verdict outside the courthouse in Hong Kong on July 21, 2016.
Photo:An officer from the Egyptian Central Security Forces (CSF) takes aim at a crowd of retreating protesters as security forces disperse the Rab’a sit-in on August 14, 2013.
Photo:High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (centre), on a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in July 2016.
Photo: A beach in the Katoo District, province of Phuket in Thailand.