Trump’s JPMorgan Chase lawsuit revives debanking concerns in US
Workers in ‘risky’ industries and many religious and ethnic groups have been denied access to financial services.

Workers in ‘risky’ industries and many religious and ethnic groups have been denied access to financial services.

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How Spain conquered with armies and missionaries, fusing faith, force and gold into global dominance.
The Neo-Gothic Vondelkerk, a 19th-century Roman Catholic church, has been used for other purposes since the 1970s.

The US president says air strikes are against ISIL, claiming the group targets Christians.

‘Debris was burning’. Nigerians have described what they witnessed in US strikes on the town of Jabo.

Christians in Syria spent Christmas surrounded by armed soldiers, with security deployed outside churches in Aleppo.

Residents of Aek Ngadol village, in Indonesia’s North Sumatra, gathered for Christmas mass amid the wreckage.
Global wars are ‘leaving behind rubble and open wounds’, pontiff says.
Christians in Gaza celebrate Christmas after two years of Israel’s war and enduring pain, displacement and destruction.

Gaza’s Christians reflected on the loss they’ve experienced after two years of Israel’s devastating war.