Cypriot official: Pope Francis to visit Cyprus in December
Nicosia, CyprusAP Pope Francis will visit Cyprus in December, making him the second Roman Catholic pontiff to ever travel to the eastern Mediterranean island nation, a Cypriot official said Tuesday. The official said the pontiff’s two-day visit will take place on 2nd to 3rd December when he will hold talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades. […]
Echoes of 2015 as EU grapples with Afghan migration, security challenges
Brussels, BelgiumReuters European Union countries on Tuesday said they would step up aid to Afghanistan and its neighbours but could not agree a common policy on accepting asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule. Western nations involved in the fight against the Taliban have airlifted 100,000 people who supported them, and would take them in, along with others […]
Biden says Afghanistan exit marks the end of US nation-building
Reuters Facing sharp criticism over the tumultuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it was the best available option to end both the United States’ longest war and decades of fruitless efforts to remake other countries through military force. Biden portrayed the chaotic exit as a logistical success that would have […]
Explainer: What happens now that US troops have left Afghanistan?
Washington DC, USReuters For the first time since 2001 there are no American troops in Afghanistan after the United States completed the evacuation of most of its citizens and thousands of at-risk Afghans. More than 114,000 people have been airlifted from Kabul airport in the past two weeks as part of the US effort. US […]
Fuel dispute triggers sectarian clash in Lebanon’s south
Beirut, LebanonReuters A dispute over scarce fuel supplies ignited sectarian tensions between neighbouring Shi’ite Muslim and Christian villages in southern Lebanon over the weekend, forcing the army to intervene, a security source said. Clashes mostly centred on the crippling gasoline and diesel shortages have become a daily occurrence in Lebanon, prompting growing concern about a […]
Books: Working for the glory of God amid “chalk and cheese” of Christianity and advertising
Author ROY WILLIAMS reviews Tom Glynn’s autobiography, ‘God’s Ad-Man’…
US feds charge ex-priest with child sex crimes in East Timor
AP A US federal grand jury has indicted a defrocked American priest on charges of having sex with minors while running a children’s shelter in a remote part of East Timor. Richard Daschbach, 84, faces seven counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct at the Topu Honis shelter that he founded decades ago in the […]
Nearly 30 per cent of Brazil’s gold exports are illegal, report says
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Roughly 28 per cent of Brazilian gold exports in 2019 and 2020 likely came from illegal mines, a report by public prosecutors and the Federal University of Minas Gerais found, pointing to widespread forging of documents and lack of effective law enforcement. The report from federal prosecutors and the Federal University of Minas […]
Cardinal to begin rehabilitation after contracting COVID-19
Madison, Wisconsin AP A top-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who eschewed the COVID-19 vaccine said he will soon begin rehabilitation after contracting the coronavirus and spending days on a ventilator. Cardinal Raymond Burke, 73, one of the church’s most outspoken conservatives and a vaccine sceptic, tweeted on 10th August that he had contracted the virus. He was […]
Self-talk
How do you talk to yourself? Internally, when no-one is around. Do you put yourself down, hold yourself to higher standards than you hold anyone else too? Encourage or criticise? How do you see yourself? PICTURE: Fares Hamouche/Unsplash Psychologists tell us that our own self-talk can be devastating to us. Often echoing voices or unfounded beliefs […]