Australian floods worsen as thousands more Sydney residents evacuate
Sydney, Australia Reuters Torrential rains kept battering Australia’s east coast on Tuesday, intensifying the floods crisis in Sydney as thousands more residents were ordered to leave their homes overnight after rivers swiftly rose past danger levels. About 50,000 residents in New South Wales, the bulk in Sydney’s western suburbs, have been told to either evacuate […]
Essay: Pakistan – how an economic crisis has sent prices rocketing
JUVARIA JAFRI, of the University of Cambridge says, in an article first published on The Conversation, that Pakistan’s economic struggles exemplify the “little fires” lit across the global economy by a war during a pandemic…
Catholic priest abducted in Nigeria, diocese says
Kano, Nigeria Reuters A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said on Monday. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the […]
This Life: Taking a stand against anxious thoughts
CHARISSA CHEONG writes about how she turned to God during a recent period of anxiety…
Rising temperatures reawakening “placid” Alpine glaciers
Milan, ItalyReuters Glaciers in Europe’s Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous as rising temperatures linked to climate change are reawakening what were long seen as dormant, almost fossilised sheets of ice. Italy has been baking in an early summer heatwave and attention had been focused on the impact of drought on crops on the […]