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1 month ago | 
lutheranworld.org | Laura Saravia
Salvadoran Lutheran Church youth leader Laura Saravia reflects on sustaining faith and hopeHope is one of the three theological virtues along with faith and love, according to Christian theology. It is a gift from God that allows us to trust in God’s promises and to hope with certainty. We often ask ourselves: what is our hope? We live in a world full of fear and uncertainty, surrounded by a climate crisis which, day after day, discourages and worries us.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Laura Saravia
The bells of Notre Dame are ringing for the first time since the fire. While the eight bells were not damaged, they required cleaning and tuning. The bells now call people to church once again. Yanis Depocko came out to watch the reopening service alone. “My friends don’t care, so I’m alone,” the 20-year-old social media influencer laughed. Still, Depocko said he felt it was important to be here tonight. “I like the story,” he said of the cathedral.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kelly Cobiella |Carlo Angerer |Laura Saravia
KINSALE, Ireland — Three days and 225 miles later, a group of almost 100 serving and retired firefighters from New York and Ireland will cycle into a garden of remembrance on Wednesday to honor those who were killed in the 9/11 terror attacks. After setting off from U.S. Ambassador's Dublin residence on Monday, the hardy group made their way across Ireland’s lush, rolling hills peddling their way to 17 fire stations and a fair few pubs along the way.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Laura Saravia |Kelly Cobiella |Bill O'Reilly
HOLMES CHAPEL, England — Customers come from around the world to Simon Wakefield’s bakery in this village in northern England — and not just to sample his quality sausage rolls. “We get lots and lots of fans,” he says, referring not only to W. Mandeville’s tasty product but also a notable ex-employee: Holmes Chapel’s most famous son and global pop megastar Harry Styles.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
nbcchicago.com | Kelly Cobiella |Laura Saravia
Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a sacred room has been unearthed at Pompeii with painted blue walls, a rare and expensive color in the Roman city. Describing it as a “very unusual thing for Pompeii,” the site’s director Gabriel Zuchtriegel told NBC News on a tour of the newly excavated site that blue “was the most expensive color” because it was difficult to make. “You had to import it from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean and beyond.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kelly Cobiella |Laura Saravia
Kelly Cobiella and Laura SaraviaJune 12, 2024 at 8:03 AM·4 min readPOMPEII, Italy — Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a sacred room has been unearthed at Pompeii with painted blue walls, a rare and expensive color in the Roman city. Describing it as a “very unusual thing for Pompeii,” the site’s director Gabriel Zuchtriegel told NBC News on a tour of the newly excavated site that blue “was the most expensive color” because it was difficult to make.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Raf Sanchez |Yuliya Talmazan |Laura Saravia
JERUSALEM — The last glimpse they had of their son was a shaky video showing him in the back of a pickup truck with part of his left arm blown off by a Hamas grenade. Now Rachel Goldberg-Polin, 54, and Jon Polin, 53, have the relief and distress of seeing him in a new video released by the militant group — proof of life they waited 201 days to see.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
aol.com | Raf Sanchez |Yuliya Talmazan |Laura Saravia
April 25, 2024 at 7:35 AMJERUSALEM — The last glimpse they had of their son was a shaky video showing him in the back of a pick-up truck with part of his left arm blown off by a Hamas grenade. Now Rachel Goldberg-Polin, 54, and Jon Polin, 53, have the relief and distress of seeing him in a new video released by the militant group — proof of life they waited 201 days to see.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Keir Simmons |Laura Saravia |Henry Austin |Alice Palmer
PARIS — Five years ago a fire brought Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral to its knees, destroying the vaulted wooden ceiling and spire. In Hatfield, Massachusetts, carpenter Hank Silver watched in horror as flames shot into the air and rapidly spread over the fabled Gothic building’s roof, known as “The Forest” because of its long planks of 800-year-old wood. Soon, Silver joined an army of skilled craftsmen from around the world and went to the building’s aid.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Keir Simmons |Laura Saravia |Henry Austin
PARIS — Five years ago a fire brought Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral to its knees, destroying the vaulted wooden ceiling and spire. In Hatfield, Massachusetts, carpenter Hank Silver watched in horror as flames shot into the air and rapidly spread over the fabled Gothic building’s roof, known as “The Forest” because of its long planks of 800-year-old wood. Soon, Silver joined an army of skilled craftsmen from around the world and went to the building’s aid.
