John L. Allen Jr.
Pope Francis meets with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad during a private meeting at the Vatican August 26, 2021. Ms Murad was kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq in 2014 during a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi people. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media Letter from USA Once again a Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday, and once again a pope didn’t win. This year’s honour went to human rights’ campaigners in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, in what’s widely been seen as an implicit condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and both his war in Ukraine and his anti-democratic…
