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2 months ago | 
naplesnews.com | Mark Bickel |Andrew West
Siewe, also known as the Python Huntress, discussed "python hunter lingo" during her presentation. The term "road gift" was explained, shedding light on the language used by those managing the invasive Burmese Python population in South Florida. Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress. Siewe gave a lecture at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hong Jiang |Tegan Nicholls
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hong Jiang |Tegan Nicholls |Russell Stapleton
Italy’s nationalist prime minister Giorgia Meloni has no trouble upsetting her liberal counterparts across Europe. But why is Pope Francis one leader she's been trying to keep onside? In 2008, Brazilian journalist Adriana Carranca arrived in Afghanistan. There, she met a man named Luis, who led her to an underground religious network that resembled a spy ring during the Cold War.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
The ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh could create religious instability in a country where there’s a delicate balance between the Sunni Muslim majority and the Hindu minority. Since the prime minister fled Bangladesh, there have been small scale attacks on temples. Just a few days ago, the government banned an Islamist party that was growing in popularity. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has now been appointed leader of Bangladesh's interim government.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
The death toll in Gaza is now almost 40,000, according to local health authorities. Meanwhile, in the Ukraine war, the UN estimates 10,000 civilians have died and 20,000 are injured. These are tragic figures. But are they inevitable? What are the moral obligations of armies – and the politicians who send them into battle – to minimise death and destruction, even if they’re fighting an enemy they consider evil?
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
France's controversial hijab ban for its own Olympic athletes, plus a theologian and an international human rights lawyer on the moral calculus of war in Ukraine and Gaza.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Jack Schmidt
The Paris Olympic Games are well underway, but not without religious controversy. Whilst the International Olympic Committee does not restrict religious clothing, the French national team has applied a dress code to its own athletes - banning the wearing of items like the hijab. Rim-Sarah Alouane is a is a French legal scholar and researcher at the University of Toulouse-Capitole
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
One of the most serious consequences of the Ukraine war has been the split in the global Orthodox church. Pew Research estimates there are 260 million Orthodox Christians. The Russian Orthodox Church has not only supported Vladimir Putin’s attack, it’s blessed it as a Holy War. The influential World Council of Churches has been under intense pressure to expel or suspend the Russian Orthodox from the organisation. Its general secretary is the Revd. Dr. JERRY PILLAY.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West
The marriage of Catholic convert J.D. Vance to a woman of Hindu Indian background not only defies assumptions about the Republicans, it’s making waves internationally. Charles Collins is managing editor of the online magazine Crux, which covers the Catholic world. He thinks a Vance vice presidency could have international implications.
