Posters near Vatican urge Pope to stop Latin Mass crackdown
Rome, Italy AP Posters calling on Pope Francis to stop his crackdown on the old Latin Mass were plastered near the Vatican on Tuesday, in the latest display of conservative opposition to the pontiff. The posters featured images of Pope Benedict XVI and St John Paul II and quoted from their texts speaking positively about the old […]
This Life: Resisting judgement
SAMANTHA ELLEY talks about our struggle with judging others…
Updated: At least 40 die in fire during protest at migrant centre in Mexico, officials say
Updated: 10:20am (AEDT), 29th March, 2023 Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters At least 40 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention centre in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently caused by a protest over deportations, officials said Tuesday. Mexican President Andres […]
Head of Nashville school in shooting would “run to” danger
Nashville, Tennessee, US AP The head of the Christian elementary school in Nashville who was killed in a shooting there on Monday was described by friends as smart, loving and a rare female leader within a male-led religious culture. “If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it,” Jackie Bailey […]
Religious, rights groups call for calm in Kenya’s second week of protests
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Religious leaders and human rights groups in Kenya called for calm on Tuesday as a second week of protests against cost of living increases raised fears of further violence, while President William Ruto said criminals would be held to account. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who lost to Ruto in last August’s election, […]
Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale […]
Digging with scant hope, families search for dozens missing in Ecuador landslide
Alausi, Ecuador Reuters Families and rescue groups in Ecuador worked to find dozens of people still missing after a landslide smothered buildings and a stadium in the small city of Alausi, with the official death toll of seven expected to rise. An avalanche of earth ploughed into Alausi, in Ecuador’s Andean Chimborazo province, on Sunday […]
New protests against Macron and his pension bill amid warnings of violence
Paris, France Reuters France faces a new nationwide day of strikes and protests on Tuesday after some of the country’s worst street violence in years marred rallies over the past week. Protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to delay retirement age by two years to 64 had been largely peaceful so far. French police look […]
Health Insight: Jetlag hits differently depending on your travel direction. Here are six tips to get over it
In an article first published on The Conversation, SALLY FERGUSON and DEAN J MILLER, of CQUniversity Australia, provide some tips for beating jetlag…
UN urges North Korea to confirm fate of forcibly disappeared people
Seoul, South Korea Reuters The United Nations Human Rights office in Seoul called on North Korea on Tuesday to confirm the fate and whereabouts of people who have been disappeared under its regime, accusing Pyongyang of violating the rights of the victims and their loved ones for decades. In a report on enforced disappearance and […]