A few months ago, I wrote a column about the word “they” and how it can be a dangerous word. Since then and after the tragedies in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., the point is driven home by the consequences when some segments of global societies label Muslims as “they.”
Year in Review: Pope Francis has been calling for a compassionate world response to the plight of the refugees but fear of terrorism and economic disruption have led to some resistance.
Dear Editor: Thanks to Karen Osborne for her Dec. 5 column challenging teens to “Start Building a Peaceful Future.”
After the recent attacks on Paris, what happens next? What kind of world do we want to live in?
I remember being 12 and watching my country bomb Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. I remember wondering if girls like me in Baghdad were looking up at the fire in the sky from homes like mine, wondering if they were going to be all right.
Hundreds of thousands of people in at least 150 countries around the world demanded action on climate change on the eve of a U.N. conference that aimed to find agreement on greenhouse gas emissions.
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, with seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the process, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to the nation and described the massacres as “an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.”
Students of French at The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, penned notes of sympathy and support for people in France, then arranged them in the now-iconic symbol of peace.
In response to the acts of terrorism that killed over a hundred people in Paris on Nov. 13, people gathered in Carroll Gardens to serve as lights in the darkness.
This week, no words from an editorial in a newspaper can give any real insight into the pure evil of ISIS and its terrorist actions in Paris. We weep with the people of Paris, and we pray for the souls of the dead, the healing of the injured and the consolation of those who mourn.
The Vatican, in its initial reaction to the terrorist bombings in Paris, condemned the attacks, calling for “a decisive, supportive response on the part of all of us as we counter the spread the homicidal hatred in all of its forms.” But the Church does not expand upon what form that response should take.
