Huge crowds march across France, raising pressure against Macron’s pension reform
Paris, France Reuters Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday to say “non” to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to make people work longer before retirement, with pressure in the streets intensifying against a government that says it will stand its ground. Opinion polls show a substantial majority of the French oppose increasing the retirement age […]
Church of England sheds light on “shameful” slave trade ties
London, UKAP Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time was accumulating a tidy profit from the transatlantic slave trade. The handwritten letter from 1723 – whose […]
This Life: Knowing the One who always keeps His word
US columnist CAROL ROUND, of Assist News Service, reflects on God’s promises to us…
Russia claims village on outskirts of Bakhmut in big push in east
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia claimed on Tuesday to have captured a village just to the north of Bakhmut, a city it is trying to surround in a major push for what would be its biggest battlefield prize in Ukraine since last summer. A Belarusian volunteer fighting for Ukraine told Reuters from inside Bakhmut that Russia […]
“Hands off Africa!”: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo
Kinshasa, Congo AP Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” as he arrived in Congo to a raucous welcome by Congolese grateful he was focusing the world’s attention on their forgotten plight. Tens of thousands of people lined the main road into the […]
US and allies mark anniversary of Myanmar coup with more sanctions
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States and its allies imposed further sanctions on Myanmar on Tuesday, marking the two-year anniversary of the coup with curbs on energy officials and members of the junta, among others. Washington imposed sanctions on the Union Election Commission, mining enterprises and energy officials, among others, according to a Treasury […]
Families seek loved ones after Pakistan mosque blast kills 100, all but three police
Updated: 7:55am, 1st February, 2023 (AEST)Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Distraught relatives thronged hospitals in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Tuesday to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people, all but three of them police. The attack, in the Police […]
In the US, Memphis fire department fires three employees in Tyre Nichols case
Memphis, Tennessee, USReuters Three members of the Memphis Fire Department who responded to the fatal police confrontation with Tyre Nichols were dismissed on Monday after investigators found he was beaten and left handcuffed on the ground without medical attention for nearly 15 minutes. According to a fire department statement, emergency medical technicians Robert Long and […]
Synod officials caution bishops to put Catholics’ needs over their own agendas
Rome, ItalyRNS The Vatican officials heading up the Synod on Synodality issued a stern reminder to the world’s bishops that they are called to listen to their flock, rather than jump to conclusions or impose their own agendas. “There are in fact some who presume to already know what the conclusions of the Synodal Assembly […]
“I am Inca blood”: Peru protests fire up a divided nation
Lima/Desaguadero, Peru Reuters In the Peruvian southern border town of Desaguadero, Indigenous protester Adela Perez is defiant after almost eight weeks of deadly clashes that have roiled the Andean nation, hit its huge copper mines and strained the country’s democratic institutions. The country of some 34 million people has been in the throes of its worst […]