India elects first president from tribal community
Mumbai, IndiaReuters Lawmakers chose India’s first president from the country’s tribal communities on Thursday, which could boost the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party among marginalised groups ahead of the 2024 general election. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old teacher turned politician, will be the second woman to hold the largely ceremonial role as head of […]
Snapshot: Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest, Hungary
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: Call to vote for your favourite Christian artists; Jet Trouble to release ‘Though None Go’
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Canada’s Inuit seek Pope’s help to return accused priest from France
Winnipeg, ManitobaReuters Canada’s Inuit people will press Pope Francis to help return a retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse to face charges in Canada, a former political leader in the country’s North said. Francis plans to visit Canada from 24th to 29th July to apologise for abuses of Indigenous children in government schools […]
World Court to rule on whether Myanmar genocide case can proceed
The Hague, The NetherlandsReuters The World Court is expected to rule on Friday on Myanmar’s objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a decision that could pave the way for the case to be heard in full. Myanmar, currently ruled by a military junta that seized power in 2021, […]
Hundreds protest in Baghdad after deadly attack on tourist resort
Baghdad, IraqReuters Hundreds of people protested in Baghdad on Thursday after an attack in northern Iraq killed nine people including a newly wed husband and a one-year-old, a strike that Iraq blamed on Turkish forces but which Ankara denied carrying out. The incident took place on Wednesday at a summer resort near the northern Iraqi […]
Sri Lankan security troops raid protest camp, 50 injured
Colombo, Sri Lanka Reuters Sri Lankan security forces raided an anti-government protest camp in the commercial capital Colombo early on Friday, two protest organisers said, a sign that the country’s new President was cracking down a day after his swearing in. Hundreds of security personnel surrounded the “Gota Go Gama” protest camp, mockingly named after […]
Southern Baptist Convention: New president Bart Barber wants the denomination to regain its rural soul
RILEY FARRELL, of Religion News Service, reports on how Barber, a pastor from rural Texas, has the task of pulling the SBC’s 13.7 million members “back from the brink”…
Vatican puts brakes on progressive German Catholic movement
Vatican City Reuters The Vatican on Thursday slammed the brakes on a German progressive movement that aims to give lay Catholics a say in doctrinal matters such as homosexuality and women priests, saying this risked causing a schism in the universal Church. A short but stern statement said the so-called “Synodal Path” could not assume […]
Essay: Russia’s mass kidnappings of Ukrainians are a page out of a wartime playbook – and evidence of genocide
In an article first published on The Conversation, ALEXANDER HINTON, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University – Newark, says Russia’s forced relocation of Ukrainians is central to the case that Russia has committed genocide…