Violence

Anne Marie Hunter, MDiv '86, director of Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 12, 2018. ♦♦♦ This morning’s reading features...

Hate crimes committed on the basis of religious identity have surged 23 percent, the biggest annual increase since 9/11. And while many have placed blame at the foot of political leaders and specifically President Trump for emboldening anti-Semites and...

The following essay was written by Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, to mark the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 23 people and injured 23 others. When I was seven...

The suffering that followed the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was too familiar to Monsignor Arturo J. Bañuelas, the pastor of St. Mark Catholic Church in El Paso, Texas. The community on the Mexico/U.S. border has endured the intimidation...