Pope attends year-end service but does not preside as expected
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis ended the year by attending a vespers service on Friday where he praised those who responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with responsibility and solidarity rather than an attitude of “every person for themselves”. The Pope did not preside at the service as had been expected, leaving that to a senior Vatican […]
Philippine death toll from its strongest typhoon of year tops 400
Manila, The PhilippinesReuters The Philippine death toll from Typhoon Rai has crossed the 400 mark, the disaster agency said on Friday, as officials in some hard-hit provinces appealed for more supplies of food, water and shelter materials about two weeks after the storm struck. Rai was the 15th and deadliest typhoon to hit the South-East […]
Happy New Year!
As a new year dawns, we at Sight hope you have a great start to 2022 and look forward to journeying with you through the coming months…
Stay of removal issued for three immigrants who resided in US ‘sanctuary’
RNS Three immigrants who have resided in houses of worship to avoid deportation were granted one-year stays of removal this week, a move faith-based immigrant rights advocates framed as a “Christmas gift” years in the making. Among the immigrants is Jeanette Vizguerra, who has resided at First Unitarian Society of Denver since spring 2019. According […]
Panama sees massive jump of unlawful migration in 2021
Panama City, PanamaReuters A record wave of unauthorized migrants entered Panama this year from Colombia, according to government data provided to Reuters on Thursday, as a surge of mostly Haitians entered the Central American country in route to the United States. Through mid-December, 126,675 unlawful migrants had entered Panama after crossing the Darien Gap, a […]
On the Screen: The Matrix returns from the dead without the originality of its predecessors
MARCUS CHEONG watches the fourth film in the Matrix line-up, released almost 20 years after the last…
Historic conclave: Chinese bishops, priests brief Hong Kong clerics on Xi’s view of religion
Hong Kong, ChinaReuters Chinese bishops and religious leaders briefed senior Hong Kong Catholic clergymen on President Xi Jinping’s vision of religion with “Chinese characteristics” in an unprecedented meeting organised by the mainland’s representative office in the city, according to four clerics. The clerics who attended or had knowledge of the 31st October meeting described it […]
Year in Review: 12 people from Sight’s 2021
While by no means an exhaustive list, here’s 12 people who we met through Sight this year…
Guatemala receives bodies of 15 migrants killed in Mexico trailer accident
Guatemala CityReuters The bodies of 15 people killed when a trailer carrying migrants overturned in Mexico were returned to Guatemala on Thursday and reunited with families who will lay them to rest as the year ends. In all, 56 people were killed when a truck packed with migrants flipped over in the state of Chiapas […]
Westminster Abbey pushed for Elton John to play at Princess Diana’s funeral
London, UKReuters Buckingham Palace received a personal appeal from the Dean of Westminster to allow singer Elton John perform at the funeral of Princess Diana, newly released government documents show. Pop singer Elton John plays a specially re-written version of his classic Candle in the Wind during the funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales, […]