Margaret Snyder, the U.N.âs âfirst feminist,â dies at 91
By Clay Risen New York Times,Updated February 6, 2021, 6:23 p.m.
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Margaret C. Snyder at the exhibition HERstory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations at UN headquarters in Manhattan, 2016.MEGAN SNYDER/NYT
Margaret Snyder, whose liberal Roman Catholic upbringing inspired a pioneering career at the United Nations, where she refocused the mechanisms of global development aid to include millions of women in Africa, Asia and Latin America, died Jan. 26 in Syracuse, New York. She was 91.
The cause was cardiac arrest, her nephew James Snyder said.
Korea faces growing calls to join Quad plus
Posted : 2021-02-07 08:56
Updated : 2021-02-07 19:20
The escalating U.S.-China strategic competition is resulting in unprecedented diplomatic challenges for Korea. One of the most pressing questions it faces is whether to join the Quad plus. Gettyimagebanks
Korea s bigger role for stability in Indo-Pacific region to be highlighted under the Biden administration
By Do Je-hae
Korea s reticence about joining a possible expansion of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad), involving the U.S., Japan, Australia and India, is increasingly being called into question, and triggering concerns that the country could be isolated from the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.
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Wilmington, Pennsylvania-Nov. 8, 2020-President-elect Joe Biden, center, visits the grave of his son Beau Biden after attending church at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov.8, 2020. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Some U.S. Catholic leaders give president a frosty reception
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden – only the second Roman Catholic in U.S. history elected to the country’s highest political office – keeps a picture in the Oval Office of himself with Pope Francis.
No doubt Biden can count on partnership with the progressive pope as he reverses many Trump-era policies to battle climate change and reform immigration.
American missionary and educator dies in Bangladesh
Holy Cross Father Joseph Stephen Peixotto served his adopted country for six decades
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Holy Cross missionary Father Joseph Peixotto served in Bangladesh for nearly 60 years. (Photo supplied)
Bangladesh is mourning a prominent American Catholic missionary who made outstanding contributions to the country’s education sector for about six decades.
Holy Cross Father Joseph Stephen Peixotto died at Moreau House, the Holy Cross priests’ residence, in capital Dhaka on Feb. 4. He was 87.
Father Peixotto had tested positive for Covid-19 about a month ago, recovered and returned to the residence.
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