But what, exactly, is evil? The term, defined in various forms, typically points to something "morally reprehensible" and is traditionally used to describe the horrors, inequalities and injustices arising from the misuse of free will.
In gang-ridden Haiti going to court has become so dangerous for lawyers that they avoid it altogether: at one lower-level tribunal no hearings or trials have been held for months.
"In February we had seven kidnappings within our ranks and one lawyer shot," Marie Suzy Legros, president of the bar association in Port-au-Prince, told AFP.
Legros was among dozens of robed lawyers who demonstrated Friday outside the home of Prime Minister Ariel Henry to complain about crime targeting attorneys in destitute and chaotic Haiti.
A recent proclamation from a Ukrainian Orthodox Church archbishop that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the “anti-Christ of our current time” has added yet another layer of intrigue to the mounting eschatological questions surrounding Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
As Russia continues an unprovoked invasion into the sovereign nation of Ukraine, political warnings abound. Amid all this dismay, though, is a lingering theological conversation that has unfolded for decades around the biblical end times and Russia’s theoretical involvement in it. Are the end times upon us? Are Russia’s actions part of the eschatological landscape? What does it all mean?