Wow!: Madagascan women step up from packed lunches to food processing
CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE, of Reuters, reports from Madagascar on an initiative aimed at addressing food insecurity…
Bruxy Cavey, Canadian megachurch pastor, resigns after sexual misconduct probe
RNS The pastor of one of Canada’s largest churches was forced to resign after an independent investigation found evidence of his sexual misconduct. Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with some 5,000 people attending 19 campuses in the larger Toronto metropolitan area, was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman who […]
Moscow Patriarch stokes Orthodox tensions with war remarks
AP Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, leader of Russia’s dominant religious group, has sent his strongest signal yet justifying his country’s invasion of Ukraine – describing the conflict as part of a struggle against sin and pressure from liberal foreigners to hold “gay parades” as the price of admission to their ranks. Kirill, a longtime ally […]
Vatican tells Moscow armed attacks in Ukraine must stop
Vatican City Reuters The Vatican’s Secretary of State told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a phone call on Tuesday that the Holy See wants armed attacks in Ukraine to stop and humanitarian corridors to be guaranteed. A Vatican statement said Cardinal Pietro Parolin also repeated the Vatican’s willingness “to do anything” to help bring […]
EU steps up humanitarian aid to Ukraine, expects millions more refugees
Brussels, Belgium Reuters The European Union on Tuesday assigned €500 million for humanitarian aid to Ukraine, saying it had taken in two million refugees fleeing the Russian invasion so far and expected millions more. Russian forces have subjected some Ukrainian cities and towns to devastating bombardment and left places like the port of Mariupol without […]
Russian offensive slows, says Ukraine, as residents flee bombed-out cities
Lviv/Irpin, Ukraine Reuters Russia’s offensive in Ukraine continued but at a significantly slower pace on Tuesday and a second senior Russian commander had been killed, Ukrainian military and intelligence said, as frightened residents fled bombed-out cities. In the city of Irpin, on the north-west edge of Kyiv, residents ran with their young children in strollers, […]
Latvian woman drives into Ukraine to rescue pets
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters At an animal shelter in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Natalia Horobets bid an emotional farewell to her beloved pet cat Charly on Monday. Horobets and her husband had fled their home in the eastern city of Kramatorsk as Ukrainian troops fought Russian invaders. But after a difficult journey west on […]
Samaritan’s Purse, Israelis will treat Ukrainians in Lviv field hospitals
RNS Samaritan’s Purse, the Christian humanitarian relief organisation, is setting up an emergency field hospital in an underground parking garage in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv to provide medical aid to those besieged in escalating Russian attacks. Rev Franklin Graham, who leads the organisation based in Boone, North Carolina, in the US, said he […]
As Ukraine evacuates trapped seafarers, foreign mariners count cost of war
London, UK/Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Bangladeshi seafarer Asiful Islam recalls the moment when a missile struck his cargo ship last week off the Ukrainian port of Olvia, killing his crew mate. “I was just 15 feet away when it hit our ship. Our third engineer, Hadisur Rahman, who was killed, was standing just two feet away,” […]
Books: A book to dwell in during the lead-up to Easter
DAVID ADAMS reads David Mathis’ Rich Wounds…