“The mission is not complete”: Safe in the US, Afghan evacuees turn their attention to the families they left behind
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how US faith-based refugee resettlement agencies are helping Afghan evacuees settle into their new homes stateside as well as advocating for those left behind…
Christians invited to light a candle for the climate during COP26
Christians are being invited to light a candle for the climate in a new global initiative to raise awareness and promote prayer and action in response to the world’s climate change crisis. The #ClimateVigil campaign – which is being spearheaded by the US-based Evangelical Climate Network along with the Million Prayer Mission, World Evangelical Alliance, […]
Essay: Following the Tigray conflict, the rocky road to peace in Ethiopia
MUKESH KAPILA, Professor Emeritus in global health and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how peace might come about and be sustained in Ethiopia…
Lifestory: Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover
MUHAMMAD FAROOQ and JOSEPH KRAUSS, of Associated Press, tell the story of Zebulon Simentov, the last Jew in Afghanistan who is now understood to have left the country…
Tigray forces killed 120 civilians in village in Amhara – Ethiopia officials
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters Rebellious forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, local officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The killings in a village 10 kilometres from the town of Dabat took place on 1st and 2nd September, said Sewnet Wubalem, the local administrator in Dabat, […]
Seeking change, Slovak Roma settlement puts faith in Pope visit
Kosice, SlovakiaReuters For factory worker Milan Turtak, the smoke-blackened buildings, sidewalks littered with garbage and extension cords hooked between apartment windows highlight the poverty and years of neglect in his Roma neighbourhood in eastern Slovakia. With little improving in the Lunik IX settlement over past decades, Turtak and others have pinned their hopes for change […]