National Catholic Register

Myanmar Junta Thwarts Aid Post-Earthquake

SAI AUNG MAIN
A young, injured earthquake survivor is held on an outdoor bed in the compound of a hospital in Sagaing on April 2, 2025, five days after a major earthquake struck central Myanmar. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake on March 28 flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing more than 2,700 people and making thousands more homeless.

The death toll stands at more than 2,700.

JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC

Erin Granzow
JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.

In his remarks, Vance returned to the theme he raised in his February speech at the Munich Security Conference, in which he criticized European Union leaders for undermining free speech and democracy.

A Forgotten Martyrdom and a Call for Human Fraternity

Pacific Press
The Ethiopian community marches against ISIS and xenophopia in Rome on April 23, 2015, days after Ethiopian Orthodox Christians were murdered by ISIS in Libya.

COMMENTARY: This Easter, let us recall the 30 Ethiopian Orthodox martyrs and the tenuous, painful and yet real progress made against the ideological underpinning of anti-Christian hate.