LISA SOWLE CAHILL received the John Courtney Murray award from the Catholic Theological Society of America at its annual banquet June 7, 2008 in Miami, Florida, for outstanding contributions to theology. The John Courtney Murray award is the highest honor bestowed by the CTSA. Read full release at: http://www.ctsa-online.org/awards_text_JCM_2008.html
DAVID HOLLENBACH recently edited and published Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa. The book is the outcome of a conference sponsored by the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice in Nairobi, Kenya, in cooperation with Jesuit Refugee Service and Catholic Relief Services. Hollenbach serves as director of the Center. The book provides an analytical framework for vigorous advocacy on behalf of the human rights of displaced people. Representing both religious and secular perspectives, the contributors are scholars, practitioners, and refugee advocates—all of whom have spent time "on the ground" in Africa. The book is available from Georgetown University press at: http://press.georgetown.edu/detail.html?session=b9db102cb81559c1f41b963747167e2f&cat=1&id=9781589012028
A selection from the book, by a Abebe Feyissa, an Ethiopian refugee who has been confined to a camp in Kenya for over a twelve years, was featured on the cover of Boston College Magazine. The story from the magazine is available at: http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/spring_2008/features/the-camp.html