“Horrible”: Witnesses recall massacre in Ethiopian holy city
CARA ANNA, of Associated Press, reports on news of a massacre said to have taken place at the Church of St Mary of Zion in the city of Axum – within Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region – in late November…
Attacks on ancient religious sites in Ethiopia kill hundreds, reports say
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Fighting in Tigray, a semi-autonomous state in northern Ethiopia, resulted in massacres at ancient religious sites as the country’s military battled the forces of the ruling party in the state, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. People seeking shelter were attacked at the Church of Our Lady of Mary of Zion, a 1,600-year-old Ethiopian […]
Murad, Amal Clooney accuse leaders and UN of failing Yazidis
United NationsAP Six years after Islamic State fighters launched an attack on Iraq’s Yazidi minority, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused government leaders and the United Nations on Monday of failing to bring the extremists responsible for the genocide to justice. Murad, whose mother and six brothers were […]
Essay: Srebrenica, 25 years later – lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian conflict and unmasked a genocide
In an article first published on The Conversation, US history professor TOM MOCKAITIS says the criminal indictments that followed the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in 1995 show why the perpetrators of wartime atrocities must be held accountable…
ESSAY: REMEMBERING SREBRENICA, 20 YEARS ON
In an article first published on The Conversation, MELANIE KLINKNER and GUILIA LEVI, of Bournemouth University in the UK, look at some of the lessons from the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica…
US Vice President Mike Pence tells grieving town “Faith is stronger than evil”
RNS US Vice President Mike Pence hugs Evelyn Holcombe at Floresville High School during a stop in Floresville, Texas. A man opened fire inside a church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday, killing and wounding many; Holcombe was in the church during the shooting but escaped. PICTURE: AP Photo/Eric Gay US Vice President Mike Pence traveled […]
Las Vegas: How one church is responding in the wake of the massacre
RNS Vance Pitman, founder and senior pastor of Hope Church. PICTURE: Courtesy of Hope Church A mass shooting is a test for any religious institution, and a massacre like the one that left at least 59 dead and hundreds injured in Las Vegas, even more so. Hope Church, a growing multi-ethnic congregation that attracts 3,000 […]