This Life: The world is not our home
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on how having a relationship with Jesus helped her discover her “true identity”…
Cardinal Pell will be interred in Sydney crypt in February
Sydney, Australia AP A once high-ranking Australian cardinal who spent more than a year in prison before his child abuse convictions were quashed on appeal will be interred on 2nd February after a requiem Mass at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, the church said Tuesday. Cardinal George Pell answers a journalist’s question during an interview with […]
Police demolish trader stalls in Congo capital ahead of Pope visit
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters Before dawn, sanitary police armed with crowbars and a bulldozer set about demolishing makeshift trader stalls crowding downtown streets in the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of a four-day visit by Pope Francis starting on 31st January. Officials say Kinshasa, a vast impoverished city of 17 million people, […]
Brazil’s Lula removes soldiers from guarding presidential residence
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has removed 40 troops guarding the presidential residence after expressing distrust in the military for failing to act against demonstrators that ransacked government buildings on 8th January. His decision was published on Tuesday in the government’s official gazette. Army officers stand guard outside the Planalto […]
Italy’s migrant rescue ship decree should be scrapped – Catholic bishop
Rome, Italy Reuters Italy’s new anti-immigration decree that aims to curtail NGO rescue ships should be scrapped as it violates international law, a top Catholic bishop said, in an unusually blunt attack against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government. The decree, which was introduced in December, forces charity-run ships to request a port and sail to it […]
Ukraine ends search for survivors in Dnipro, death toll hits 44
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine called off search and rescue operations on Tuesday at the rubble of an apartment building in the eastern city of Dnipro where at least 44 people were killed in a Russian missile attack. The State Emergency Service said 20 people were still unaccounted after Saturday’s attack and that the 44 confirmed dead […]
Egypt to sell discounted bread to fight inflation
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Egypt’s government will start selling discounted bread to people not enrolled in its bread subsidy program as it battles accelerating inflation, the supply minister said on Monday. People will be able to buy 90g gram loaves at cost price using pre-paid cards, Ali Moselhy said, adding the price was yet to be […]
Ancient Maya cities, ‘super highways’ revealed in latest survey
Guatemala City, Guatemala Reuters A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world’s first highway network and hidden for millennia by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico. It is the latest discovery of roughly 3,000-year-old Maya centers and […]
Health Insight: Sitting all day is terrible for your health – now, a new study finds a relatively easy way to counteract it
KEITH DIAZ, associate professor of behavioural medicine at Colombia University, looks – in an article on The Conversation – at what a new study shows about counter-acting the impacts of prolonged sitting…
UN watchdog optimistic about Ukraine nuclear plant protection
Yuzhnoukrainsk, Ukraine Reuters The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday he hoped to make progress on a safe zone deal around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine, but stressed it was a tough negotiation. Russian forces in March captured the Soviet-era plant, Europe’s largest, soon after their invasion of Ukraine. It […]