To vanquish lived trauma, Netflix’s ‘Procession’ puts victims in the director’s chair
RNS Robert Greene is expert at weaving memory and reality. The director of Procession, a new Netflix documentary about survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Greene never allows the men’s re-creations of their trauma to go too long before he disrupts the narrative. Crews redo sets. The survivors take a break to process details […]
Non-profit groups tell WTO to reverse “vaccine apartheid” before any meeting
Washington DC, USReuters More than 130 civil society groups largely from developing countries are calling for the World Trade Organization to cancel a ministerial conference next week and instead concentrate on approving an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines. The groups, organised under a loose coalition called “Our World is Not For Sale”, said in […]
Israel to give Gaza Christians permits for Christmas holiday
JerusalemAP Israeli authorities on Wednesday said they would permit 500 members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Christian community to enter Israel and the occupied West Bank to celebrate Christmas. Israel has in the past allowed Gazans to exit the blockaded territory for Christmas, though the practice was frozen last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. […]
Tackling deforestation: In Ivory Coast, a battle to save cocoa-ravaged forests
JOE BAVIER, MAYTAAL ANGEL and ANGE ABOA, of Reuters, report on efforts to protect forests in the West African nation…
In time for Hanukkah, archaeologists reveal battle-scarred stronghold against Maccabees
Jerusalem, IsraelRNS Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,100-year-old stronghold they believe constitutes physical evidence of the yearslong armed conflict whose crucial battle is celebrated by Jews today during Hanukkah. What the archaeologists have found, they say, was built by the losers of that conflict: the Seleucids, forces of the occupying Greek empire, who were doing […]
Essay: What we profess on Sunday ought to apply to Black Friday
In an article published on Religion News Service, ROSA LEE HARDEN, executive producer of Faith+Finance, calls for us to reflect “on not just why we give gifts but how we purchase them”…