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Published on: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Pope John Paul II collapsed in the papal Jeep after being shot in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome on May 13, 1981. PARIS: Saint Peter’s Square in Rome was packed with 20,000 faithful hoping to catch a glimpse of John Paul II on that fateful May afternoon 40 years ago. Suddenly as his open white Fiat “Popemobile” eased through the crowd, the pontiff collapsed – shot at close range by a far-right Turkish nationalist whose motives remain mysterious to this day.  At 5.41pm on May 13, 1981 AFP flashed: “Pope John Paul II wounded b...

    Saint Peter’s Square in Rome was packed with 20,000 faithful hoping to catch a glimpse of John Paul II on that fateful May afternoon 40 years ago. Suddenly as his open white Fiat “Popemobile” eased through the crowd, the pontiff collapsed — shot at close range by a far-right Turkish nationalist whose motives remain mysterious to this day. At 5:41 pm on May 13, 1981 AFP flashed: “Pope John Paul II wounded by two gun shots.” The 60-year-old Karol Wojtyla was immediately rushed to hospital. He was hit in the abdomen, left hand and right arm. Two women in the Polish-born pope’...

Panic And Prayers: The Day John Paul II Was Shot 05/11/21 AT 3:39 AM Saint Peter's Square in Rome was packed with 20,000 faithful hoping to catch a glimpse of John Paul II on that fateful May afternoon 40 years ago. Suddenly as his open white Fiat "Popemobile" eased through the crowd, the pontiff collapsed -- shot at close range by a far-right Turkish nationalist whose motives remain mysterious to this day. At 5:41 pm on May 13, 1981 AFP flashed: "Pope John Paul II wounded by two gun shots." The 60-year-old Karol Wojtyla was immediately rushed to hospital. He was hit in the abdomen, left hand...

Get email notification for articles from Alex Galitsky Follow May. 9, 2021 10:30 AM The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core.Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it. In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born. It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe's Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire's exte...

Get email notification for articles from Alex Galitsky Follow May. 6, 2021 1:27 PM The Armenian genocide in many ways shook the established world order to its very core. Here was an atrocity so inexplicably depraved that there was no word to describe it, and no system to resolve it. In this watershed moment in human history, the basis of our modern system of international governance, human rights, and international law were born. It wasn’t, however, until the crime of genocide was repeated with the annihilation of Europe's Jewish population – inspired in part by the Ottoman Empire's exte...