The OLIRE (Observatory of Religious Liberty in Latin America) 2025 Annual Report

The largest statue of Jesus in the entire Middle East is being built in Lebanon, and here’s how it’s coming along

What distinguishes this project, however, is the immediacy of its context. Unlike monuments erected in times of relative stability, this one rises amid ongoing uncertainty—economic crisis, regional tensions, and the lingering aftershocks of violence. Its construction is therefore not merely commemorative but contemporaneous, unfolding in parallel with the very trials it seeks to transcend

After seven years, Rhode Island report finds a past it cannot prosecute and a present it cannot condemn

The Rhode Island investigation thus occupies an uneasy space between revelation and closure. It contributes to the historical record of abuse within the Catholic Church in the United States, reaffirming patterns already documented elsewhere: a concentration of cases in the mid-20th century, followed by a sharp decline as awareness, reporting mechanisms and safeguarding protocols evolved