US Lenten cease-fire campaign includes Ash Wednesday Mass outside White House
Washington DC, US RNS About 100 Christian protesters from several denominations praying for a cease-fire in Israel and Gaza gathered outside the White House on Ash Wednesday for a Catholic Mass and ecumenical Christian witness. “The intention was to pray for our fellow Catholic, Joe Biden,” said Judy Coode, communications director for the Catholic peace […]
Essay: Prabowo Subianto is poised to succeed in lifelong quest to become Indonesia’s president. This is why it’s so worrying
In an article first published on The Conversation, TIM LINDSEY, director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne, looks at Subianto’s road to become president and what kind of leader he will be…
Postcards: “The hardest job in the world” – Siberian shipyard workers brave freezing cold
Reuters correspondents report from Russia’s Far East…
Private US Moon lander launched half century after last Apollo lunar mission
Cape Canaveral, Florida Reuters A Moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first US lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft. The company’s Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after […]
Catholic bishops in Mexico say they negotiated for possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders
Mexico City, Mexico AP Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks. The revelation by Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, José de Jesús González Hernández, in remarks at […]
Kansas City police link Super Bowl rally shooting to dispute, not extremism
Reuters A quarrel among several people sparked the shooting spree in Kansas City, Missouri, that killed a woman and wounded 22 people after a celebration of the city’s NFL Super Bowl victory, police said on Thursday, discounting any apparent link to extremism. Two juveniles and an adult were being held as suspects, Police Chief Stacey […]
Updated: Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalise same-sex civil marriage
Updated: 10:45am (AEDT) Athens, Greece AP Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalise same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted late Thursday in favour of the landmark bill drafted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ‘ center-right government. Another […]
Haiti gang wars block aid routes for most vulnerable, UN agency says
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters A recent spike of violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is preventing the World Food Programme from reaching hundreds of thousands of people in urgent need of supplies, as conflicts between armed gangs worsen an escalating humanitarian crisis. The United Nations’ food agency on Thursday said the latest violence, which broke out in […]
Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel in reprisal for deadly day
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Hezbollah said on Thursday it fired dozens of rockets at a northern Israeli town in a “preliminary response” to the killing of 10 civilians in southern Lebanon, the deadliest day for Lebanese civilians in four months of cross-border hostilities. The United Nations urged a halt to what it called a “dangerous escalation” […]