James Longman

2 weeks ago | outreach.faith | James Longman

Outreach Original James Longman / May 19, 2025 Print this: My grandmother always wore blue in May, for the Virgin Mary. She was from a different age, from a generation of Catholic Lebanese women for whom faith, family and a certain degree of pride in their appearance, were more important than anything else.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jon Haworth |James Longman

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope. It would be "unexpected" if the conclave goes past Friday, Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, archbishop of Algiers, told ABC News at the Vatican on Tuesday. “If on Friday night, the pope is not elected, it will be that something unexpected has happened,” Vesco said. The 12th and last general congregation was held on Tuesday.

2 months ago | abcnews.go.com | James Longman

“If we lose the support, we’ll fight with our bare hands.”Ukrainian soldiers with the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade get training incase of a gas attack during military training on March 13, 2025 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Ukraine has agreed to a US-backed proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, with Russia yet to issue an official response.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | James Longman

Ukraine’s biggest underground hospital is an astonishing subterranean warren of timber and high-tech medical machinery. Over 4,300 square feet of operation rooms, an ICU, dormitories, nurses' quarters and even a small gym, all some two stories underground. Not far from the southeastern front line, this extraordinary facility is a monument to Ukrainian ingenuity and resilience. We witness an ambulance arrive from the front with injured soldiers. One of the men is visibly distraught.

Feb 12, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | James Longman

The bombing would start at nightfall. For hours we watched what looked like giant orange and yellow fireflies streaking through the air, then disappearing above us. Seconds later a faint wind would kick dust in our eyes, and through it we'd see the massive white-hot explosion in the distance. It was March 2019 and I was in the Syrian desert with my job as a TV reporter for the American news channel ABC .