torture
‘The Report’ is a real step toward truth and reconciliation on torture
By Seth Kaper-Dale — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — A congregation seeking justice for the tortured and the torturers have had their prayer answered by an unlikely source: Hollywood.
Three different ways to resist Trumpian nationalism
By David P. Gushee — January 26, 2017
Three paradigms for resisting when nationalism is on the march. But will any be strong enough?
Pope urges protection of ‘invisible and voiceless’ child migrants
By Josephine McKenna — October 13, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a strongly worded statement, Francis says immigration is 'growing into a tragic situation of global proportions' and children are being exploited by the 'unscrupulous' as they flee violence and poverty.
Italy faces fine over CIA abduction of Egyptian cleric
By Rosie Scammell — February 24, 2016
ROME (RNS) Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr had been given political asylum and was living in Milan when he was snatched from a street in February 2003.
Scalia’s views strayed from Catholic teaching (COMMENTARY)
By Jason L. Miller — February 18, 2016
(RNS) As someone who works in faith-based advocacy, I wonder how prudent it is to lift Justice Scalia up as an authentically Catholic voice.
Saeed Abedini says he was tortured in Iranian prison
By Reuters — January 26, 2016
Abedini told Fox News that while in Tehran's Evin prison he was beaten by interrogators, was left with an al-Qaida prisoner who tried to kill him and watched people screaming and crying while taken to be hanged.
On Religious Freedom Day, stand for the persecuted abroad (COMMENTARY)
By Robert P. George — January 15, 2016
(RNS) Standing for the persecuted is not just a moral imperative; it is a practical necessity for any country seeking to enhance stability and protect its security and that of its citizens.
President Obama should visit solitary confinement cell to see true suffering (COMMENTARY)
By Ron Stief — July 15, 2015
(RNS) Thursday's prison visit is an opportunity for President Obama to expand and grow the legacy he hopes to leave as a criminal-justice reformer.
On torture, can we handle the truth? We’d better start trying (COMMENTARY)
By Carmen LaBerge — December 17, 2014
(RNS) Certainly the mind of Christ is not divided on the issue, so why does the church not speak unequivocally with one voice on matters like torture?
Ending our nation’s addiction to torture (COMMENTARY)
By Ron Stief — December 10, 2014
(RNS) For many in our country, including people of faith, and certainly for those in the back rooms of the entertainment industry, torture sells as an antidote to fear. But it doesn’t work.
Pope Francis blasts supermax prisons as ‘torture’
By David Gibson — October 23, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Francis also took aim at practices that have been hotly debated in the U.S, such as the so-called "extraordinary rendition" of terror suspects to other countries.
Orthodox rabbis indicted in divorce shakedown scheme
By Richard Khavkine — May 23, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) Four Orthodox rabbis implicated in a torture-for-hire operation were indicted Thursday (May 22).
UN criticizes Vatican on sexual abuse but stops short of calling it torture
By Josephine McKenna — May 23, 2014
ROME (RNS) The panel’s criticism was far more muted than a scathing February report from the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child that asserted that the Vatican had fostered “impunity” for abusers.
Vatican defends record on sexual abuse to UN panel
By Josephine McKenna — May 6, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) “Any serious look around the world at what the Holy See is doing and what local churches are doing shows clearly that there is no climate of impunity but a total commitment to clean house," Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said.
Vatican to UN: Don’t equate sexual abuse of minors with torture
By Josephine McKenna — May 2, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's chief spokesman, urged the U.N. committee to resist pressure to include the sexual abuse of minors in a discussion about torture.
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