Over the last 40 years in the US, there's been a steady, quantifiable, across-the-board drop in people becoming involved in civic associations, community groups, religious bodies, labor unions—even recreational leagues.
In
Mexico's Chiapas state, remnants of the Mayan people who once ruled the region are contending for land rights in an ecological preserve that represents nearly half of Mexico's remaining rainforest.
Millions
of Africans know Jesus' parable of "the good Samaritan," that familiar story of a traveler who aids a man who's been wounded, robbed, and left to die.
