Judge unexpectedly resumes frozen Beirut blast investigation
Beirut, LebanonReuters The judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion has unexpectedly resumed his inquiry and charged top security officials, three judicial officials said on Monday, more than a year after his probe was frozen by political resistance. Judge Tarek Bitar’s efforts to interrogate top officials over the explosion that killed 220 people and shattered […]
South Korea mourns, wants answers after Halloween crush kills 153
Seoul, South KoreaReuters Shocked family members collected bodies, parents searched for children and a country sought answers on Sunday after at least 153 people were crushed to death when a crowd in South Korea surged in an alleyway during Halloween festivities. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning and designated Seoul’s popular Itaewon […]
Mexico’s missing: As numbers mount, families keep searching
STEFANIE ESCHENBACHER and MAHE ELIPE, of Reuters, report on how families are involved in the ongoing search to find the more than 100,000 people missing in Mexico…
Pope urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants
Matera, ItalyAP Pope Francis travelled to southern Italy on Sunday to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy’s national election, and delivered a message that hit on key domestic campaign issues including immigration. Neither Francis nor his hosts referred to the vote during the open-air Mass, though Italy’s bishops conference had earlier […]
US general urges faster repatriation of IS families in Syria camp
Amman, Jordan Reuters The repatriation and reintegration of thousands of families of Islamic State militants languishing in a Kurdish-run detention camp in north-east Syria should be speeded up, the top US general in the Middle East said on Monday. General Michael “Erik” Kurilla, who leads US Central Command (CENTCOM), said many of the residents of […]
Children find lost families as Congo conflict rages
Manono, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Jason Kandeke and his sister Esther got out of the van and rushed into the arms of their weeping uncle and grandmother – the children’s first contact with their family since Congolese fighters killed their parents six years ago. Militias raided their village of Mingele in south-eastern Democratic Republic […]
“Liturgy of Domestic Church Life”: Couple’s model for living faith at home could change Catholicism one family at a time
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, speaks to Gregory and Lisa Popcak about their vision for empowering the laity by sacralising the small things families do every day…
Sight-Seeing: Living with your parents – intentionally – can be life-giving
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article published by Religion News Service, says multi-generational living doesn’t have to mean living in the basement…
“Not an adventure for anybody”: UK cost-of-living crisis reveals “hidden” child poverty
Families are being forced to choose between heating and eating as soaring energy bills spotlight extent of poverty in Britain, reports EMMA BATHA of Thomson Reuters Foundation…
The Interview: US CDC researcher Susan Hillis on how people of faith can support COVID orphans
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with Susan Hillis, a member of the COVID-19 International Task Force at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about how her Christian faith connects with her work and how people can support children and families devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic…