Postcards: Spooked by crime, Ecuadoreans train to carry guns for self-defence
ALEXANDRA VALENCIA, of Reuters, reports from Quito…
“Where can we go?” Fear and self-defence near Ukraine’s eastern frontiers
Donetsk/Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters Viktor, a pensioner, goes to sleep in breakaway eastern Ukraine, listening out for shelling in case he needs to take cover. In the city of Kharkiv, Viktoria Makarova, a building firm manager, is learning to fire a rifle in case of an invasion. Far from the rarefied rounds of diplomacy aimed at […]
Priests differ on call to arms in violence-torn Mexico state
Mexico CityAP Even for the violence-wracked Mexican state of Michoacan, it was surprising when a priest called from the pulpit for parishioners to arm themselves against warring drug gangs. “The cartel gunmen come, they take the livestock, they screw your wife and daughter, and you do nothing,” Rev Alfredo Gallegos said in a sermon. ”Well, […]
Guns and the church: Being a good guy with a gun is what God wants, say “sheepdog” evangelicals
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at the issue of firearms – and the arguments for whether Christians should own them for self-defence – in the light of a recent controversy over a crowd-funding campaign raising money for the defence of 17-year-old charged with killing two people…