Two Greek firefighters have died after they became trapped tackling a wildfire that swept through the Rethymno area of Crete. Gale-force winds whipped up the flames prompting the evacuation of several villages, in the latest summer wildfire to break out in southern Europe. In southern Turkey, the main Fethiye to Antalya highway had to be…
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (RNS) — When Abdul Wahab talks about the proposed Crescent Gardens Cemetery, a dedicated Muslim burial site, he often returns to a simple reality. “People are going to leave this world anyway,” he said. “We don’t have a choice. We need the graves.” Wahab is a board member of the Muslim Mortuary…
Sanz said it was the “most devastating fire” that Andalusia had ever seen. Juanma Moreno said the deaths were a tragedy and he warned that the death toll could rise significantly. “Our hearts are heavy and we are devastated by grief,” the regional president posted on social media. Four people have been taken to hospital…
BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters) – ChinaAid, a Christian NGO, said on Sunday it welcomed the release of Zion Church Pastor Jin Mingri, who had been held in detention centres in the southern Chinese city of Beihai since last October and arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday. Eighteen leaders of the major underground church, including Jin,…
Israeli air strikes in Lebanon have killed one person, the country’s health ministry said, a day after the two countries signed a deal aimed at paving the way to a lasting peace. Lebanon’s state news agency said an Israeli drone hit the southern town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and later reported further strikes in the area,…
The BBC has been given rare access to the part of southern Lebanon that is under Israeli occupation, as part of a humanitarian convoy of the Order of Malta distributing aid to Christian villages that have been isolated because of the war. The mission happened on Thursday, a day before the announcement of a new…
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — A proposal by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to ban churches that have women pastors or let women preach on Sunday mornings passed overwhelmingly on Wednesday (June 10), marking the first step toward enshrining the ban in the Southern Baptist Convention’s constitution. Almost three-quarters (74.6%) of local church delegates, known as…
A spectacular Southern Lights display has been captured on camera from space. Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir filmed the timelapse from onboard the SpaceX Dragon shuttle. The Southern Lights are just as common as the Northern Lights, and regularly take place over Antarctica, but relatively few people live in latitudes close to the South Pole, so…
NewsFeed A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Liuzhou in southern China’s Guangxi region, causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse, killing at least two people. More than 7,000 residents have been evacuated as search and rescue operations continue. Published On 18 May 202618 May 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share…
This article is part of our Design special section on retrofits. In mid-March, as the South Carolina sun faded in the evening, tourists gathered in the shadows outside Charleston’s Old Jail. Two teenage boys ribbed each other — “Hey, did you see that? Wait, did you hear that?” They were there for a ghost tour…
