Auto Added by WPeMatico
There is a way war settles into the body long before it ever reaches the ground beneath your feet. It arrives first as a headline, a flicker on a screen, a number too large to comprehend. Then it grows teeth. It becomes names. Faces. A child carried through dust. A mother counting what is left….
The Easter festival day, when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, is as old as the resurrection faith itself — the very foundation of the Christian faith. Christians believe that Jesus was sentenced to death and executed by crucifixion for the salvation of humanity and all creation, on the day we commemorate as Good Friday….
At a time like this, there are wars and rumours of wars. The international body of law has no sway in the conduct of national affairs. This is a time of the loudmouthed, the powerful; and nations speak, act and form alliances with those who can advance their own national will. The promises of our…
The first signs of municipal collapse do not appear in council meetings, parliament or in political party boardrooms where coalitions are discussed. They appear in burst water pipes left unrepaired for months, in roads riddled with potholes, in the hum of generators as communities brace for rolling power outages caused by transformer failures and in…