Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

The Price of Development: The Resistance of the Global South Against Ideological Colonialism

By Luis Martinez-Guzman, Esq. | September 25, 2026 |

On paper, international cooperation serves to drive development. In harsh reality, it often becomes an instrument of extortion. We are seeing this today, in these early weeks of October and heading toward the end of the year, as the diplomatic machinery steps on the gas. During these days, the committees and sessions of the OACPS-EU…

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HLI Joins the Civil Society Coalition for the Geneva Consensus Declaration

By Luis Martinez-Guzman, Esq. | September 25, 2026 |

At the very heart of the UN, the defense of life and the family has just taken a firm step forward. During the recent High-Level Week in New York, as world leaders opened the General Assembly, the countries of the Geneva Consensus Declaration from among them sent a clear message. Today, they are a bloc…

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