In Peru, the “battle between rich and poor” continues in wake of parliamentary coup
For several weeks, I have been hoping to share a reflection on what is happening in Peru. Every day brings new protests and further repression, rendering any update quickly out-of-date. But some things are clear and lasting. My latest blog post…
Fake criminal charges, mining justice and solidarity in El Salvador
The charges have nothing to do with achieving justice for any of the 75,000 people who died during the civil war, and everything to do with the government’s drive to re-open metals mining in El Salvador in the wake of its Bitcoin failure.
What’s love got to do with it? The life and work of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
Jim Hodgson Why write about the death of a former pope and cardinal in a blog about development? Because his condemnation of several liberation theologians in the 1980s and later were attacks on the most vigorous and coherent critique of contemporary development practice – or the ways inequality and exploitation are either maintained or overcome…
Haiti: another military intervention looms large
by Jim Hodgson Haitians (whose own proposals for building a better country are persistently ignored) once again face an illegitimate government, one that has proposed a foreign intervention force to quell gang violence and to keep itself in power. In reporting by many journalists from the global north, popular protest against the government, increased fuel…
In Mexico, 43 students missing for eight years: not forgotten and still making headlines
As the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students approaches, a series of events reveals more about what happened as well as efforts by people tied to the former government to maintain the cover-up.
World Council of Churches: for peace, against sanctions, and sexuality talks continue
Two statements from the WCC Assembly stand out for me. One is theological: is A Call to Act Together. The other, The Things That Make For Peace, is about policy options in the face of climate crisis, war and misuse of international sanctions.
At the intersections of Queer, Trans and Indigenous in Guatemala
In Guatemala, to be Indigenous and Queer or Trans adds “another form of oppression and vulnerability.” Read the words of Fernando Us and Mónica Chub.
Santo Domingo in October 1992: 500 years of resistance and the Canadian Ecumenical Presence
As my penitential pilgrimage continued at a distance from that of Pope Francis, I found myself thinking increasingly of another pilgrimage. In October 1992, about 200 people joined the Canadian Ecumenical Presence (CEP) in Santo Domingo. As I could find almost nothing on the internet, I thought I should share something here.
The church, systemic injustice, social sin and the “doctrine of discovery”
The entire colonial project, including the residential schools, is grotesque interference in the “development of peoples.”
Canada’s residential schools and my own “penitential pilgrimage”
Through the six days of the pope’s “Penitential Pilgrimage,” I mostly refrained from comment about the visit. It was best, I felt, that people hear the voices of residential school survivors and other Indigenous people, along with the voice of Pope Francis. I made my own penitential pilgrimage. Here begins a three-part series of reflections…
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