In Canada, Bruxy Cavey charged with sexual assault
RNS Police in the Canadian city of Hamilton have charged the disgraced former pastor of one of the country’s largest churches with sexual assault. Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with 20 campuses across the province of Ontario, was charged with one count of sexual assault on 31st May. Cavey, 57, was […]
Vatican unveils investment ethics body as corruption trial drags on
Vatican CityReuters The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled a committee to oversee the ethics of its investments, even as a corruption trial related to a botched London real estate deal in which it lost more than €200 million continued. The committee will be headed by a cardinal, Irish-American Kevin Joseph Farrell, who is based at the […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says it will fight for all territory amid fierce battle in east
Kyiv/Druzhkiva, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as his troops struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the city of Sievierodonetsk. “We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory,” Zelenskiy said by video link […]
Colombia discovers two historical shipwrecks in Caribbean
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Colombian naval officials conducting underwater monitoring of the long-sunken San Jose galleon have discovered two other historical shipwrecks nearby, President Ivan Duque said on Monday. The San Jose galleon, thought by historians to be carrying treasure that would be worth billions of dollars, sank in 1708 near Colombia’s Caribbean port of Cartagena. […]
Migrant caravan in Mexico heads for US border as Americas Summit starts
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week. Migration activists said the group could be one of the region’s largest migrant caravans in recent years. […]
Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Oleg Averyanov’s factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in north-eastern Ukraine on 24th February. Months later, the 44-year-old is gearing up to restart some of the plant’s operations […]
Famine risk rises in Somalia as rains fail, food prices soar – UN
London, UKReuters Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as a drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday. The agencies said a fourth consecutive rainy season had failed in the Horn of Africa country and meteorologists were warning of another below-average […]
Broker blames “irrational” Vatican choices for London losses
Vatican CityAP One of the principal figures in the Vatican’s bungled London real estate venture testified Monday that the Holy See would have turned a profit on its valuable investment if it hadn’t pulled its money out of a fund prematurely. Raffaele Mincione, a London-based fund manager, said it was an “irrational” decision by a […]
You must love your enemy
For most of human history, geography dictated who your community was. While you could gravitate towards like-minded people, necessity dictated that you had to learn to work and cooperate with people different to you to live. PICTURE: Wildpixel/iStockphoto Today we electronically gather with people exactly like ourselves and block anyone different. It sounds like a […]
Cost of development: Evicted villagers pay a high price for India’s hydropower push
ATHAR PARVAIZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the human cost of India’s hydro-electric plants…