Clergy abuse survivors propose new ‘zero tolerance’ law following outcry over Vatican appointment
Rome, ItalyAP Clergy sexual abuse survivors on Monday unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them, as they stepped up their outrage over Pope Francis’ choice to head the Vatican office that investigates sex crimes. The global advocacy group End Clergy Abuse unveiled the draft […]
10,000 migrants reach US border daily, highlighting need to address root causes, Mexico says
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Some 10,000 migrants and asylum seekers arrived at the US-Mexico border daily last week, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday, amid record numbers of people moving north across the continent. Migrants, who were stranded a day earlier near Villa Ahumada, and who are seeking asylum in the United States, […]
Death of dolphins in Amazon linked to severe drought, heat
Manaus Reuters The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat. Low river levels during a severe drought have heated water in stretches to temperatures that are intolerable for the dolphins, […]
After Ankara bombing, Turkey hits back in Iraq and at home
Istanbul, TurkeyReuters Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years. On Sunday morning, two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them both and wounding […]
Change to avoid transitions
Are you someone who uses change to avoid transitions? PICTURE: Andrew Teoh/Unsplash The late American organisational consultant William Bridges names people like that. They will change jobs rather than discover what it is in themselves that keeps finding such terrible bosses to work for. They will end a relationship rather than deal with the behaviours, attitudes […]
Trump reaped over $US100 million through fraud, New York says as trial starts
New York City, USReuters A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s Attorney General and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $US100 million by lying about his real estate empire. Attorney General Letitia James is seeking at least […]
“The stars aligned”: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s President avenged his father
ANDREW OSBORN, of Reuters, reports on the recent background to events in Nagorno-Karabakh…
WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. “Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. […]
Essay: Pope Francis has appointed 21 new cardinals – an expert on medieval Christianity explains what it means for the future of the Catholic Church
JOANNE M PIERCE, professor emerita of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, looks at the complex history of the College of Cardinals and how they will help shape the future of the Catholic Church…