With a sex scandal in his troubled diocese under police investigation, a Polish bishop resigns
Rome, ItalyAP The Pope on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked by reports of a sex party involving a male prostitute in a priest’s apartment, as well as previous violent incidents involving his clergy. The Vatican didn’t give a reason for why Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak was resigning as […]
Sight-Seeing: Only the enemy-loving Way of the Cross can save Israel and Gaza
NILS VON KALM reflects on how we, as Christians, are called to respond to the violence in Israel and Gaza…
Doctors report outbreaks of disease among Gaza’s displaced
Gaza Reuters Doctors in Gaza say patients arriving at hospitals are showing signs of disease caused by overcrowding and poor sanitation after more than 1.4 million people fled their homes for temporary shelters under Israel’s heaviest-ever bombardment. Aid agencies have repeatedly warned of a health crisis in the tiny, crowded Palestinian enclave under an Israeli […]
Russian forces pound eastern Ukraine’s Avdiivka
Reuters Russian forces pounded the shattered eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka on Tuesday, but heavy losses forced them to switch to air attacks and rely less on full-on ground advances, Ukrainian officials said. Russia has focused on advancing in the east – in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk – after failing to move on […]
Freed Israeli hostage says “I’ve been through hell”
Tel Aviv, IsraelReuters An elderly Israeli hostage who was released by Hamas overnight said she had been beaten by militants when she was abducted and taken to Gaza on 7th October, but was then treated well during her two-week captivity in the Palestinian enclave. Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, was one of two elderly women freed late on Monday, […]
Congo machete attack: 26 killed by suspected Islamist militants
Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. They attributed the killings to the Allied Democratic Forces, a group originally from Uganda, now based in eastern […]
“Humanitarian pause” in Hamas-Israel war is urged to aid Gaza civilians
Gaza/JerusalemReuters The United Nations, United States and Canada appealed on Tuesday for a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war to allow safe deliveries of aid to civilians short of food, water, medicine and electricity in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip. International pressure for unimpeded aid to Gaza rose as the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled coastal […]
Ancient Amazon River rock carvings exposed by drought
Manaus, Brazil Reuters Human faces sculpted into stone up to 2,000 years ago have appeared on a rocky outcropping along the Amazon River since water levels dropped to record lows in the region’s worst drought in more than a century. Some rock carvings had been sighted before but now there is a greater variety that […]
Inquiry into New Zealand’s deadliest shooting opens with memorial to victims
Wellington, New ZealandReuters A coroner’s inquiry into New Zealand’s worst mass shooting opened on Tuesday with a traditional Maori welcome and a reading from the Quran in remembrance of the 51 Muslim worshippers killed by an Australian white supremacist. Armed with high-capacity semi-automatic weapons, Brenton Tarrant, 32, killed 51 people and injured dozens when he […]
Meltdown of West Antarctic Ice Sheet unavoidable, study says
Reuters The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to melt this century regardless of how much the world slashes planet-warming emissions, research from the British Antarctic Survey has found, locking in further sea level rise over the coming decades. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday, found no matter the degree […]