• Pope Francis calls for universal ban on surrogacy

    Pope Francis calls for universal ban on surrogacy

    Jan 08, 2024 05:32 PM EST

    ... Francis’ usual tendency to spare Moscow direct, public blame for the invasion when expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Francis was more balanced in his lament of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel “and every instance of terrorism and extremism.” At the ...

  • Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison

    Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison

    Jan 05, 2024 12:19 AM EST

    ... treat an apparent opioid drug overdose, but prosecutors say he faked his condition to further stall his sentencing. Worrell suffers from a rare form of lymphoma and said he was afraid the cancer treatment he'd get during a long prison sentence could allow the disease to kill him. He ...

  • Harvard president resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

    Harvard president resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

    Jan 02, 2024 09:03 PM EST

    ... is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge.” Supporters of Gay lamented her resignation. “Racist mobs won’t stop until they topple all Black people from positions of power and influence who are not reinforcing the ...

  • Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Jan 01, 2024 09:53 PM EST

    ... to what they were 30 years ago when the Zapatistas appeared, according to government data. Support for the movement has eroded with time and Ruiz lamented that younger generations have not carried the same convictions to maintain the struggle. Gerardo Alberto González, a professor in the Department of Public Health ...

  • The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    Dec 31, 2023 11:33 PM EST

    ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor. Jan. 9. Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, 51. An ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk. Jan ...

  • Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Dec 27, 2023 06:42 PM EST

    ... as EU Commission president but that he overreached at the end, alienating some European leaders who became “fed up with this guy who hogged the limelight.” A German businessman once likened Delors to the autocratic King Louis XIV of France. In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty that founded the EU clipped ...

  • Amid Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis calls for worldwide peace on Christmas

    Amid Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis calls for worldwide peace on Christmas

    Dec 25, 2023 02:18 PM EST

    ... Bethlehem “is a place of sorrow and silence” this year. Francis’ annual “Urbi et Orbi” ("To the City and the World") speech typically offers a lament of all the misery facing the world, and this year’s edition was no different. From Armenia and Azerbaijan to Syria and Yemen, Ukraine ...

  • Vatican prosecutor seeks new trial after cardinal's embezzlement conviction

    Vatican prosecutor seeks new trial after cardinal's embezzlement conviction

    Dec 22, 2023 07:33 PM EST

    ... given to prosecutors, which he said resulted in an investigation and trial that were “well distant from those adopted in a state of law.” He lamented that the defense wasn't allowed to call the pope or the Vatican secretary of state as witnesses, even though other testimony and documentation ...

  • As Israel expands ground war against Hamas, Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000

    As Israel expands ground war against Hamas, Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000

    Dec 22, 2023 03:59 PM EST

    Martin Griffiths, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief, lamented the world’s inaction. “That such a brutal conflict has been allowed to continue and for this long — despite the widespread condemnation, the physical and mental toll and the massive destruction — is an indelible stain on our collective conscience,” he wrote ...

  • Palestinian Christians prepare for a somber Christmas amid war as many grieve

    Palestinian Christians prepare for a somber Christmas amid war as many grieve

    Dec 22, 2023 02:42 PM EST

    ... signed by several Christian pastoral leaders in Bethlehem. Addressed to President Joe Biden, it asked him to help stop the war. The signatories said they lamented all deaths, Palestinian and Israeli. “We want a constant and comprehensive ceasefire. Enough death. Enough destruction. ... This is our call and prayer this Christmas ...