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'Like battle': Indian rescuers strive to free 41 trapped workers
AFP, Published on 24/11/2023
» SILKYARA TUNNEL (INDIA) - Ambulances were on standby Thursday as Indian rescuers dug through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks.
Pope winds up Portugal visit with big outdoor Mass
AFP, Published on 06/08/2023
» LISBON: Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass before a huge crowd on Sunday at a riverside park near Lisbon to wrap up an international jamboree of Catholic youth.
Joy, fear as India's population becomes world's biggest
AFP, Published on 26/04/2023
» DEHRA (INDIA) - Exhausted, elated and cradling her newborn daughter in a rundown government hospital, young mother Manu Bala had just helped make India the world's most populous nation.
At funeral, hundreds mourn verger killed in Spain church attack
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» ALGECIRAS (SPAIN) - Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday for the funeral of the verger who was killed when a machete-wielding assailant attacked two churches in Spain as investigators probed the reasons for the deadly assault.
Churches turn into 'tools of war'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» Andriy Pavlenko, an Orthodox church abbot in eastern Ukraine, seemed to be on a selfless spiritual mission. When war came, he remained with his flock and even visited a hospital to pray with wounded soldiers.
Sweden's 'crossfit priest' heals body and soul on Insta
AFP, Published on 02/01/2023
» STOCKHOLM - Under the Instagram handle 'crossfitpriest', Swedish hospital chaplain Oskar Arngarden doles out fitness and spiritual advice to more than 30,000 followers, helping to heal body, mind and soul.
Former pope Benedict dies at 95
Published on 31/12/2022
» ROME: Former pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has died at the age of 95 in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said on Saturday.
Lending a helping hand
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» Abortion has been banned in Poland for 29 years, but that has done little to prevent women from finding access to the procedure, leaving Rev Tomasz Kancelarczyk a busy man.
An Indian family's fatal journey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/03/2022
» The air temperature was pushing 20 below zero and howling winds were whipping up blinding snow one morning in January when US Border Patrol agents in North Dakota spotted five human forms moving through the barren borderland where America and Canada meet.
Pedestrian deaths spike in US
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/02/2022
» After a festive evening spent viewing a display of holiday lights, Aditya Bhattacharya and his family were crossing a street to head home.