Fighting rages in Sudan’s capital after 24-hour truce expires
Khartoum, SudanReuters Heavy clashes and artillery fire erupted across Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday and residents reported air strikes soon after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that had brought a brief lull to eight weeks of fighting between rival military factions. Witnesses said the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
In the US, panel makes ethics ruling against lawmaker who hid Bibles in Arizona House lounge
Phoenix, Arizona, USAP An ethics committee in the Arizona House has concluded that a Democratic lawmaker engaged in disorderly behaviour by hiding Bibles in a lounge for legislators as a comment about the separation of church and state and the weaponisation of religion in politics. Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, of Tucson, was caught on video […]
International criminal court opens office in Venezuela amid probe
Caracas, VenezuelaReuters The International Criminal Court has opened an office in Venezuela, prosecutor Karim Khan said on Friday following a meeting with the country’s President Nicolas Maduro. The ICC is investigating Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity. International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro attend a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, […]
Doomed or sign of hope?: Pope Francis’ mission for peace in Ukraine is underway
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi returned from Kyiv on Tuesday where he was sent by the Pope to promote a just peace in Ukraine. CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports…
Child plane crash survivors in “acceptable” state of health
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an “acceptable” state of health, the government said on Saturday. The siblings were found on Friday in Caqueta province after weeks of searching by the military, Indigenous […]
Pope recovering well from surgery but to skip Sunday blessing
Rome, ItalyReuters Pope Francis’ recovery from surgery is going well but doctors advised him not to deliver his Sunday blessing from a hospital balcony to avoid strain on his abdomen. Briefing reporters at the Gemelli hospital on Saturday, chief surgeon Sergio Alfieri also said the 86-year-old had agreed with doctors to stay there for at […]