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Radio Free(ing) Africa

How a shortwave radio network is helping to counter Boko Haram

Mary Kay Magistad

Whose Century Is It?

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Father Damion, abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey, left, and Spencer Brewery director Father Isaac walk through their new, state-of-the-art facility in Spencer, Massachusetts, Jan. 9, 2014.

Lifestyle & Belief

Trappist monks keep beer tradition alive despite decline in interest for monastic life

A bronze standing Shiva statue is unpacked at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh after being returned to the kingdom in March 2023.

Arts, Culture & Media

 Looted relics returned to Cambodia receive monks’ blessings

Young Africans seek to leverage Vice President Harris’ trip to Africa 

50 years ago, Nixon announced the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam

A student shows a piece of ceramic in the archaeological excavation near Salbitz, central Germany, on Friday, April 8, 2011.

States at dawn: Part I

The Kyiv Pesherska Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, in Kyiv, Ukraine, ornate cathedral, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it’s the heart of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.

Ukraine

Divisions among Orthodox church communities widen amid war in Ukraine

Music

The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who has died at 99

Raising the street protest to art form: synchronized megaphone barkers sang and chanted in unison to fire up the crowds.

Protest

In France, students prove an unlikely ally in protests against pension reform

Montreal Canadiens superfans brace for historic record to be smashed

The sword of the Royal House of Avis on a stylized cross decorates the 56-meter high Monument to the Discoveries by the Tagus river in Lisbon, Thursday, March 30, 2023. 

Justice

Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery after years of pressure from Indigenous activists

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