A Saint’s Life : Why film-maker Yelena Popovic made a movie about the life of Orthodox saint Nektarios of Aegina
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Yelena Popovic, director of ‘Man of God’ about why she made the film, whom she hopes will see it and what message St Nektarios of Aegina’s life has for us today…
In pictures: Brazil procession celebrates the Holy Spirit
Pirenopolis, Brazil AP Over the course of nine days, a religious procession known as the Folia of the Divine Holy Spirit brings messages of faith and song to farms and villages across the countryside of Brazil’s Goias state. Mounted revellers parade in the culmination of the religious tradition, “Folia do Divino Espirito Santo” or Feast […]
Essay: Royal jubilees have always been surprisingly religious affairs
PHILIP WILLIAMSON, professor of modern British history at Durham University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation, at the role religion has played in marking monarchs’ jubilees in the UK…
Updated: EU bans most Russian oil; Zelenskiy calls Donbas situation ‘extremely difficult’
Updated: 11am (AEST)Kyiv/Lviv, UkraineReuters EU leaders agreed on Monday to ban most imports of Russian oil to the 27-nation bloc as Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk, the last city still held by Kyiv in Ukraine’s strategic Luhansk province. European Council President Charles Michel said on Twitter the ban, agreed at […]
German federal court mulls bid to remove anti-Semitic relic
Berlin, GermanyAP A German federal court on Monday mulled a Jewish man’s bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached, and said it will deliver its verdict in the long-running dispute next month. The “Judensau”, or “Jew pig,” sculpture on the Town Church in Wittenberg […]
Wow!: US cities swap dead trees for new in circular economy for forests
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how US cities are working to mitigate the loss of urban trees…
Life in Ukraine’s post-siege Mariupol: barter markets and Russian TV
Reuters People are slowly starting to return to the streets of the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, pummeled by weeks of shelling from Russian forces and now fully under Russian control. On Monday, local residents charged electric devices from generators and exchanged food and clothes at impromptu street markets, while at an empty bus station […]