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A woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen) Oxford, England — When Spanish parliamentarians passed a law allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the run-up to Easter, it was the latest in a program of radical measures that has set the countrys Socialist-led government against its once-powerful Catholic Church. Despite a year of bitter controversies, Spains...

Religion In Times Of COVID: A Polish Story Of Mass Hypocrisy Churchgoers pray at St. Josephs Cathedral - Dominika Zarzycka       The presence of the faithful at Mass, regardless of the threat to their health and lives, is essential for the Church to physically survive. And the state is an accomplice. -Essay- WARSAW — Were going through another complete lockdown in Poland, which costs the economy 1.3 billion zlotys (280 million euros) a day — and churches ar...

SkyUp Airlines plans to launch four services between Ukraine and Albania this summer season, adding up to 11X-weekly flights to the Albanian capital Tirana. The carrier intends to resume flying from Kyiv Borispol (KBP) to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza (TIA) from April 25. Service will initially be 2X-weekly on Thursdays and Sundays using Boeing 737-800 aircraft, rising to 5X-weekly by late May. A route from Kharkiv (HRK) to TIA will launch on May 27, followed by flights from Lviv...

Romea.cz   Czech clergyman proposes the readers themselves choose the names of Holocaust victims to be read on Yom Hashoah this year, whether Jewish or Romani 6.4.2021 9:03 Mikuláš Vymětal (PHOTO: Personal archive of Mikuláš Vymětal) 4 April was Easter Sunday for western Christians, as well as the eighth day of Passover, on which we remember the very sad anniversary of the biggest pogrom ever to take place in Prague in 1389, when a fanaticized Christian mob murdered three-quarters of t...

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Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust Barbed wire fence against a dark sky (Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.”  Less well known but equally insightful was Ado...

6.04.2021, 17:18 The strike committee calls not to finance the punitive regime. The Belaruskali strike committee addressed one of their enterprises key partners, the Norwegian company Yara, with a call not to finance the punitive regime of Lukashenka. The striking miners conveyed the truth about the real state of affairs at the enterprise. The Dear Mr. Holsether, We, the participants of the Belaruskali strike, are writing to you, Svein Tore Holsether, and to the management of Yara, represent...

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Lukashenko unhappy about relations with Poland MINSK, 6 April (BelTA) – During the government conference held on 6 April to discuss foreign policy matters Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke at length about relations with Poland, BelTA has learned. These matters were discussed in the second half of the government conference after ways to optimize the network of Belarusian diplomatic institutions abroad were discussed. Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “The second item is mutual relations ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum said Monday that damage was done by a New Yorker article that explores efforts to stifle Holocaust scholarship in Poland, a piece the museum had originally accused of containing lies about Polands role during World War II. The text was amended on Monday to clarify some wording in a subheading, though the magazine and author said they stand by the article itself that argues that legitimate debate by historians about some Poles’ ...