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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."

- Isaiah 10:1-2

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy No Kings Day!

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Jun 12

My story on the aftermath of Juan López's murder, and what his legacy can mean for the church in Honduras.

Honduran church leaders demand justice for assassinated Catholic activist

Juan López, who fought environmental destruction and corruption in Honduras, was killed in 2024, shot to death in the neighborhood where he lived. Nine months later, why he was killed still remains in...

www.ncronline.org

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · May 29

Finally, an authentic Pope Leo quote. He said this today in Rome.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · May 21

A story about "Methodist -Quaker nuns" isn't something you stumble across often. Yet I found two such women in a remote corner of Honduras. Here's their story.

new.express.adobe.com/webpage/HkZL...

Honduras Nuns

A story told with Adobe Express

new.express.adobe.com

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · May 3

On World Press Freedom Day, instead of talking about Gaza or Myanmar and the challenges that journalists face there every day, let's talk about the United States under Trump, where Pam Bondi is talking about executing reporters who dare criticize our Dear Leader.

hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-com...

They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists Is How Democracies Die & Dictatorships Begin

It’s not paranoia when it’s happening right in front of you…

hartmannreport.com

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 30

What's the opposite of woke?

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 30

After Trump announced today that he wants to be pope, my 3-year-old grandson announced his candidacy.

“I want to show the world that we can stay awake and continue Francis’ focus on environmental justice and mercy toward migrants,” he said. “I also think the Popemobile would be fun to drive.”

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 26

At his funeral today, the final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 14

My article on deportees arriving back in Honduras.

www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/ch...

Church workers welcome deported migrants to Honduras

Scalabrinian Sr. Idalina Bordignon is director of the Center for Attention to Returned Migrants, a joint effort of the Catholic Church and several government and nongovernmental agencies. As deported ...

www.globalsistersreport.org

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 10

Trump's market manipulation convinced me to start selling these action figures as a way to raise money for my grandson's college fund. But the deal I arranged with a factory run by penguins in Antarctica fell through when tariffs made that contract too expensive.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 6

Big crowd turned out for the "Hands Off" pro-democracy demonstration in Salem, Oregon, on April 5, 2025.

Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Apr 6

Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Mar 30

Pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Mar 13

With Duterte behind bars in The Hague, here's an article I wrote in December about the courageous Filipina women who put him there. It was published just before his arrest.

uwfaith.org/latest-news/...

March/April response: Deaconesses Demand Justice | United Women in Faith

United Methodist deaconesses in the Philippines are prime movers behind a variety of ministries inside and outside the church.

uwfaith.org

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Mar 11

After years of struggle to dismantle impunity, led by courageous Filipina women whose family members were assassinated in the so-called "war on drugs," Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested after the ICC indicted him.

Ex-president Rodrigo Duterte arrested over crimes against humanity

Due to drug war killings, Duterte becomes the first former Philippine head of state to be arrested through an order by an international tribunal

www.rappler.com

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Mar 1

The White House explicitly excluded AP and Reuters from the Zelensky meet, but allowed in a reporter from TASS, the Russian state-owned news agency. The WH later claimed he "snuck into" the Oval Office uninvited. Anyone can sneak into the Oval Office, right? #Krasnov

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 26

Ethnic cleansing meets AI. Trump's new Gaza video would make Leni Riefenstahl blush.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 21

Among the casualties of Trump's USAID freeze is screening for cervical cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in Africa. Talk about a waiver for humanitarian programs is misdirection. People are dying. (Nurse Moureen Mbise screens a woman in a hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.)

Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 20

I captured this image at a pro-democracy march on Monday, not knowing that by Wednesday it would become prescient.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 19

Jasmina Jahic gets help with her prosthetic arm from her 5-year-old son Eldar in Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost an arm a leg to a landmine during the Bosnian War. The U.S. has long been the largest donor to the never-ending task of removing landmines and UXO. Until Trump came along.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 18

My favorite sign at a pro-democracy demonstration today in Eugene, Oregon.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 15

Richard Chamangawa, a refugee from the DR Congo, plays a homemade adungu in the Makpandu refugee camp in South Sudan. The 12-year-old boy made his utilizing an empty can that had contained vegetable cooking oil provided to his family by USAID, the relief arm of the U.S. government. USAID is no more.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 13

Tendai Nyamkondiwa accompanies her niece, Ngonidzashe Rondozai, on the street where they live in Harare, Zimbabwe. Rondozai, 17, has cerebral palsy and uses an appropriately designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with funding from USAID--the program Trump has killed.

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Paul Jeffrey @globallens.bsky.social · Feb 13

Sitting on a vegetable oil can provided to his family by USAID, a boy studies in a makeshift school in a camp for displaced families in Zalingei, in the Darfur region of Sudan. In refugee camps around the world, the cans, when empty, are often repurposed as “chairs” which children take to school.

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