At US Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Lindsey Graham grills Ketanji Brown Jackson on faith
Washington DC, USRNS South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham grilled Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her faith on Tuesday, an uncomfortable exchange that confirmed Jackson’s status as a Protestant Christian and highlighted questions about the separation of church and state. The line of questioning emerged during the second day of Senate hearings […]
Postcards: Egypt erects sand barriers as rising sea swallows the Nile Delta
MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes low-cost sand dykes can help hold back the Mediterranean Sea and protect the homes and incomes of people in Egypt’s breadbasket…
Young Australian Christians want churches to be more involved in climate change fight – report
Sydney, Australia Millennial and Gen-Z adult Christians in Australia want their churches to become more involved in the fight against climate change, a new report shows. Tearfund Australia’s They Shall Inherit the Earth climate report, released on 21st March, reveals more than three in five young Christians are very, or extremely, concerned about climate change, […]
Pope Francis talks to President Zelenskiy as war rages in Ukraine
Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis spoke over the telephone to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, the second such call since the start of the war in Ukraine, this time addressing the need to help migrants fleeing the country. Afterward, Zelenskiy tweeted about the phone call, writing that he “told His Holiness about the difficult humanitarian […]
Russian court finds jailed Kremlin critic Navalny guilty of fraud
Reuters A Russian court found jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty of large-scale fraud and contempt of court on Tuesday, a move likely to extend by years the time that President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic spends in jail. Navalny is already serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence at a prison camp east of Moscow for parole […]
Russian air strikes wreak havoc on Mariupol, turning Ukrainian city to “ashes”
Lviv/Kyiv, UkraineReuters Intense Russian air strikes hit the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and street fighting raged on Tuesday, a day after it rejected Moscow’s demand to surrender, Ukrainian officials said. The city council said the bombardments were turning Mariupol into the “ashes of a dead land”. Multiple explosions and rising smoke are seen […]
Explainer – How could Russia’s Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?
Reuters US President Joe Biden has publicly called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal, but legal experts said a prosecution of Putin or other Russian leaders would face high hurdles and could take years, as outlined below: How is a war crime defined?The International Criminal Court in The Hague defines war crimes as “grave […]
World War II Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Reuters He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp. Last week, Boris Romanchenko, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed when shelling hit his ordinary flat in the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. “It is with horror that we […]
No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
Shanghai, ChinaReuters Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data in 6,475 cities showed on Tuesday, and smog even rebounded in some regions after a COVID-related dip. The WHO recommends that average annual readings of small and hazardous airborne particles known as […]
In Canada, Bruxy Cavey investigation widens to include two more alleged victims
RNS Bruxy Cavey, the disgraced former pastor of one of Canada’s largest churches, may have sexually abused more than one woman, the church told its members on Saturday. In an email, Maggie John, chair of The Meeting House board, wrote that the church has received two more allegations of sexual misconduct against Cavey, who was […]