Postcards: Faith-based volunteers show up to help after Mississippi tornadoes
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports how Christian groups have responded after the devastating tornadoes in Mississippi…
Subterranean Roman building discovery a new step in uncovering history of Leicester Cathedral site
Norwich, UK A decade ago, Leicester Cathedral caught the attention of the world when the body of King Richard III, killed in the 1485 Battle of Bosworth, was reburied within the cathedral after his body was discovered in a carpark across the road. Now Leicester Cathedral has hit the headlines again when a unique religious subterranean […]
Judge rules immigration officials violated US pastor’s religious freedom rights
United StatesRNS A New York pastor and immigrant rights activist has won a protracted legal battle against the US Department of Homeland Security, with a judge ruling last week that federal agents violated her religious freedom and retaliated against her following a 2019 incident along the US-Mexico border. In his ruling, US District Judge Todd […]
Cuba calls national election a “home run”, opposition groups cry foul
Havana, CubaReuters Cuba said on Monday that voters had elected all 470 candidates for the National Assembly on the ballot over the weekend, calling the results a “home run”, while opposition groups critiqued the elections as a farce. Election officials said Monday that the initial turnout was 75.9 per cent, topping participation in municipal elections […]
Updated: Ex-student shoots dead three children, three adults at Tennessee Christian school
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT)Nashville, Tennessee Reuters A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, […]
Netanyahu suspends judicial overhaul after day of Israeli turmoil
Updated: 9:15am (AEST)JerusalemReuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused his signature plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary after a day of nationwide turmoil when workers joined a general strike against the proposal and hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets. The plans by his nationalist religious coalition to hand control over judicial appointments to the […]
Updated: Ukraine shuts ‘post-apocalyptic’ battlefield town to civilians
Updated: 8:45am, 28th March, 2023Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own. A Ukrainian general said Kyiv was planning its next move after Moscow […]
Updated: Ecuador landslide kills at least seven in the Andes, 23 hurt
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Alausi, Ecuador Reuters A landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ecuador’s Andean region killed at least seven people, with 23 people hurt and almost 50 missing, the country’s risk agency said on Monday in a revised report on Twitter. Earlier, the agency reported that 16 people had died as a result of the […]
Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes. But when the teacher calls on Sofia to read a passage her computer screen freezes. “Can […]
Toxic mining waste threatens health near North Macedonia school
Lojane, North Macedonia Reuters The heavy odour gives a hint of the tonnes of toxic waste including arsenic oxide left at a landfill site near where 400 children learn and play at a school in North Macedonia. A chromium and antimony mine in the village of Lojane was closed in 1979 and the waste was […]