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Georgia: Initiative of families of missing people, memorial to be inaugurated in Tbilisi Over 2,300 people, both civilians and military personnel, are still missing in Georgia since the armed conflicts of 1990s and August 2008. Meanwhile, their families have been spending years in uncertainty about what happened to their loved ones. Article 15 March 2021 Georgia As part of a humanitarian effort to search for the missing, several burial sites were excavated throughout the region over the last ...

Photo Credit: (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) St Thomas The Martyr Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (left) recently hosted an event in which a Kairos leader advocated a boycott of Israel. The World Council of Churches (WCC) had a chance to draw a line in the sand. It had a chance to show the world that it took the plague of antisemitism seriously, and understood that ugly dishonest polemics about Israel undermine the ability of Christians to promote peace in the Holy Land. The organization ...

Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,... But instead of engaging in an act of metanoia, the WCC’s leaders in Geneva (and one of its activists in South Africa) hardened their hearts against the truth, and doubled down on the lies they’ve told about events in the Holy Land (and themselves as peacemakers). With their refusal to confront their mistakes, leaders and staffers at the ...