Explainer – UN plan to get Ukraine grains out faces hurdles
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Turkey said on Wednesday a United Nations plan to set up a sea corridor for Ukrainian grain exports overseen by Ankara was “reasonable”, but required more talks with Moscow and Kyiv to ensure ships would be safe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February halted Kyiv’s Black Sea grain exports, threatening a global food […]
Essay: The Catholic bishops support gun control. Why don’t we hear more about it?
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says that it’s time to change the fact that hardly anyone in the US knows about the strong and comprehensive position on gun control taken by the US Catholic bishops…
UK charities seek injunction to block migrant deportations to Rwanda
London, UKReuters Human rights groups said they had submitted papers at the High Court in London on Wednesday to get an injunction to halt next week’s planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a plan that has drawn widespread criticism. Britain’s government announced in April it had struck a deal to send potentially […]
Sight-Seeing: And God saw that it was good – creation care and why our silence is deafening
MATTHEW SMEAL explores why so many Christians are quiet on the issue of climate change…
Russian Orthodox Church sends its second most powerful figure on lower-ranking overseas posting
London, UKReuters Russia’s Orthodox Church has ousted its second most powerful bishop from his role in charge of foreign relations and sent him to Budapest, an abrupt decision indicating discord at the top of the Moscow Patriarchate over the war in Ukraine. The Holy Synod, which met at the white-walled 13th century Danilovsky Monastery in […]