In a letter, the patriarchate writes that 30 "provocateurs" wearing masks and carrying weapons attacked bishops, priests, and others. Conversely, Jerusalem’s deputy mayor said that “Arab Muslim men" fought with Armenians until police made arrests "on both sides". Control over a disputed area in the holy city is behind the attack.
In the first general audience after Christmas, the pontiff introduced a new series of catechesis centred on "vices and virtues." Starting with the story of Adam and Eve, the pontiff said that the "dynamics of evil and temptation" is represented by the "serpent". In his greetings, he called to pray “for martyred Ukraine and the people of Palestine and Israel".
In his (first) inauguration speech, Sheikh Meshal attacks the institutions that have failed to bring about 'change or correction' in the course of the nation. He also targets decisions that 'do not meet' standards of 'fairness and justice'. The country still relies on crude oil revenues and has no plans for a post-oil era. The prospect of public spending cuts.
Today's news:IAEA, Pyongyang activated a second nuclear reactor in Yongbyon; New, gruesome feminicide in India; Vietnamese vice-minister of industry and trade arrested for corruption; Thousands of Afghan migrants in prisons in Pakistan and Iran forcibly repatriated; Russian oil companies increase deliveries to China and India.
Today's news: more and more children in Gaza suffer from dizziness due to lack of food. Bangkok blocks the granting of new gun licences for a year. Burmese women fleeing war imprisoned, beaten and forgotten in Indian prisons. Katholikos Karekin II, Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, against peace talks with Azerbaijan.
Held after a decade, the vote went off smoothly with no incidents nor fraud. Some 42 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Pro-Iranian Shia parties that back current prime minister won in the capital and the south, a sign of things to come in the parliamentary elections set for 2025.
Today's news: Japan's new Industry Minister wants to revive microchip production; Tehran executes child bride Samira Sabzian; India - the world's former second largest sugar importer - risks having to import this raw material from 2025 due to climate change;. Fighting continues in Gaza UN postpones (again) Security Council vote on truce; Joint patrol operations on the border between China and Laos.
Speaking to AsiaNews the Latin Patriarch reviews the dramatic events of the last period, the war, the killing of the two Christian women. A "preventable" death, impossible to mistake them for Hamas militiamen. Conflict causes pain that divides, everyone "locked in their own." Jerusalem and Bethlehem's silence, failure to visit Gaza. Starting over with people, "to rebuild."
The incident involved a train that left the northern district of Netrokona for the capital. A 32-year-old woman and her three-year-old son were among the victims. Train tracks have been reportedly removed. The government blames the opposition for the violence. For protest leaders, the train attack was an attempt to sabotage their action.
Today's news: Prison system in Israel is collapsing, over 3,000 more inmates since October alone; International troops on the southern side of the inter-Korean border will rearm in response to the North's increasing military activism; In Pakistan artificial intelligence used to create a rally by former premier Imran Khan, now in prison; Myanmar's civil war has caused more than 2.6 million new internally displaced persons.
Today's news: at UN Security Council new vote on Gaza truce, with over 20,000 dead; Beijing prepares to test first "made in China" ocean drilling ship; Hanoi indicts dozens of people for bribery in 12 billion euro scam; Pakistan uses artificial rain for the first time to combat smog in Lahore; In Kuwait, the funeral of Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was held yesterday.
The victims are said to be mother and daughter, at least five wounded one of them seriously. The attack is reportedly still in progress, snipers opening fire indiscriminately. Earlier heavy shelling in the area, also hit the house of Mother Teresa's nuns. Behind the assault the (unfounded) rumors of a missile launcher hidden inside the parish yards.
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