Anger and disbelief amidst the rubble in Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters On a residential street in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, debris was strewn all around, blood stained the ground and the bodies of people carried from destroyed homes lay covered in blankets. Some survivors of the barrage by Russian forces sat silently where they could, staring at the carnage. Others helped rescue […]
On the Screen: ‘The Batman’, the ‘Darkest Knight’ yet
MARCUS CHEONG watches Robert Pattinson’s debut as Batman in the latest DC reboot…
“We can all support each other” – Amid floods in Australia, Northern Rivers residents rally to help
Evans Head, New South Wales, Australia The sound of helicopter rotors as they drop off food supplies has become a normal sound in the coastal village of Evans Head, on the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Surrounded by floodwaters, there has been no way for supply trucks to come in and stock the two […]
Roma pastor in Hungarian village takes in Roma fleeing Ukraine
Tiszabecs, HungaryReuters In the poorest street of Tiszabecs, a tiny village on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, the local Roma community now gives shelter to 150-200 Roma who fled western Ukraine in the past few days, half of them children. Their local pastor, 44-year-old Attila Pater, who has been working for the Hungarian Pentecostal Church on both sides of the border, […]
Pfizer to provide 10 million courses of COVID pill to developing countries – the Global Fund
Reuters Pfizer Inc is expected to provide around 10 million courses of its highly effective COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid to low-and-middle-income countries this year, according to an official with the Global Fund, a healthcare NGO working to buy the pills from the drugmaker. The Fund’s head of strategy for policy, Harley Feldbaum, said Pfizer had […]
“We don’t have the money”: Sudan’s economy tumbles in post-coup deadlock
KHALID ABDELAZIZ, NAFISA ELTAHIR and AIDAN LEWIS, of Reuters, report on the growing economic crisis in Sudan…
Arab refugees see double standards in Europe’s embrace of Ukrainians
Sidon, Lebanon/Amman, JordanReuters Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Hariri, who fled the war in his country for neighbouring Lebanon 10 years ago, spent the last decade hoping in vain to escape to a new life in Europe. Watching European nations open their arms to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in less than a week, the father of […]
Essay: War at Lent – how Ukraine could reshape how we think about Christian unity
JACOB LUPFER, in an article published on Religion News Service, says the message of Lent, no matter how or where it is celebrated, remains the same…