Vance Boelter wasn’t acting like a man ready to go to war. On the afternoon of June 11, the barrel-chested 57-year-old sat ...

Vance Boelter had visions of business success at home and abroad. But in the words of one acquaintance, he was “living a ...

As the U.N. marks its 80th anniversary this month, its humanitarian agencies are facing one of the greatest crises in their ...

Hawa Hassan, who escaped civil war in Mogadishu, shares stories of displacement in eight other regions of the world.

The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in ...

A 20 percent cut in humanitarian aid in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp, home to over 300,000 refugees, led to a dramatic ...

Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese martyr who died at the age of 26, was beatified in Rome on Sunday, June 15.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the richest countries in natural resources—yet one of the poorest in human development. How did a land with such vast potential end up with such a tragic ...

Vance Boelter turned from decades as a food-service manager to launching security firms and far-fetched African ventures.

The Vatican on Sunday beatified a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: someone who refu ...

Boelter claimed to have a doctorate of education, and said he spent extensive time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in ...