Sudan’s cultural heritage in peril as fighting rages
Cairo, EgyptReuters In Sudan’s capital, precious books in a major library have been burned and the national museum has been cut off for weeks by fighting. In Darfur, another museum is at risk from seasonal rains after projectiles punctured the roof. The conflict that has been raging between rival military factions in Sudan since mid-April […]
Sculpture of John Paul II with rock, red water makes waves
Warsaw, PolandAP A new statue that depicts the late Pope St John Paul II throwing a rock into red water has provoked debate in his native Poland and revived memories of a 1999 Italian sculpture that showed him crushed under a rock, to which the new work was intended as a counter-statement. The statue by […]