Childhood amid conflict: For some Gaza children, another round of violence reopens trauma
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and HENIRETTE CHACAR, of Reuters, report on the trauma Palestinian children face growing up in the densely populated Gaza Strip…
Postcards: With births and a beauty salon, Afghan “guests” transform US base
PHIL STEWART, of Reuters, reports from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey…
The Long Read: War’s trauma apparent in portraits of Gazan children
AYA BATRAWY and FELIPE DANA, of Associated Press, look at the impact of years of ongoing conflict on the children of Gaza…
“She screams when someone comes near”: Gaza children in trauma
GazaReuters Three weeks since Suzy Eshkuntana was pulled from the rubble of her house, destroyed by an Israeli air strike, the six-year-old girl has barely spoken except to ask for her mother and four siblings who were killed that day. Her life turned upside down, Suzy and her father are now living with her uncle, […]
Essay: Why genocide survivors can offer a way to heal from the trauma of the pandemic year
In an article first published on The Conversation, DONALD E MILLER, a professor of religion at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at what the healing process of genocide survivors may offer for post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery…
Essay: Do people become more religious in times of crisis?
US theologian DANIELLE TUMMINIO HANSEN looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at what the evidence shows about religion and belief when facing traumatic events…
Sight-Seeing: The evangelical sexual abuse crisis is the spiritual warfare of our time
Evangelical writer KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about how she came to a greater understanding of what happens to victims of abuse and how trauma works…