Books: The what, why and how of reading the Bible explained
DAVID ADAMS looks at a short book to read if you’re struggling to get into the Bible…
US campus ministries soothe, rally students shaken over Ukraine
New Haven, ConnecticutAP Entering Yale University’s St Thomas More Catholic chapel, Oksana Goroshchuk spotted sunflowers adorning a candlelit altar and thought of the fields full of her country’s national blossom near her grandmother’s home in Ukraine. A mezzo-soprano launched into a traditional folk tune that Goroshchuk used to sing growing up, and the postdoctoral medical […]
More than 1,000 small earthquakes hit Portuguese volcanic island
Lisbon, PortugalReuters Around 1,100 small earthquakes have rattled one of Portugal’s mid-Atlantic volcanic islands in less than 48 hours, prompting authorities to activate an emergency plan as experts assess what they have described as a “seismic crisis”. Rui Marques, head of the Azores archipelago’s seismo-volcanic surveillance centre CIVISA, told Reuters on Monday the earthquakes, with […]
Biden says Putin is weighing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine
Washington DC, USReuters Russia’s false accusations that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons illustrate that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself in his war against Ukraine, US President Joe Biden said on Monday, without citing evidence. Putin’s “back is against the wall and now he’s talking about new false flags he’s setting […]
UN expert urges North Korea to dismantle political prison camps
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters A UN human rights expert called on North Korea on Monday to release tens of thousands of people believed to languish in political prison camps, while urging regional and world powers to raise such issues with Pyongyang alongside nuclear concerns. Tomas Ojea Quintana said that a landmark UN investigation in 2014 had […]
On leaders
Brene Brown is one of those authors who undoes me. How’s this from Brene? “Leaders must invest a reasonable amount of time attending to the fears and feelings [of their people], or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviour.” PICTURE: Marcus Spiske/Unsplash Wow. I just want people to be mature. […]
US Supreme Court: Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly expresses thanks to God but keeps faith history private
As confirmation hearings begin in the US, ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, looks at the faith of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…
UK aid worker asks why she was left in Iran for six years
London, UKReuters Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe accused Britain and Iran on Monday of treating her like a political pawn, saying it should not have taken six years for London to secure her release from detention in Tehran. Appearing at a news conference in parliament in London, the 44-year-old said she would always be haunted by […]
Essay: Four reasons to be hopeful about the planned global plastics treaty
As negotiations kick off, ELIZABETH KIRK, a professor of international environmental law, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at what the world-first treaty for ending plastic pollution will actually mean…
Blinken says Myanmar army committed genocide in ‘widespread and systematic’ attacks on Rohingya
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States formally determined that Myanmar’s army committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its violence against the Rohingya minority, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, warning that as long as a military junta was in power nobody in the country would be safe. Announcing the decision, […]