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This weekly newsletter is focused on global news and is authored by Mindy Belz. Drawing on her experience as a journalist for over 25 years, Mindy shares her insights on international events through her unique lens as a reporter and a Christian.

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Booting more legal immigrants

2 weeks ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

Just before rising basketball star Khaman Maluach took the court for Duke against Houston in the NCAA tournament Final Four round on Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took steps to revoke his legal residency in the United States. Without warning Rubio announced Saturday afternoon that he was revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders “effective immediately”:It is time for the Transitional Government of South Sudan to stop taking advantage of the United States.
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Myanmar's war-torn disaster

3 weeks ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

Rescue work following a quake is some of the most daunting work in the world. It takes a crew of trained specialists, sniffer dogs, sonar equipment and seismic readers, patience and keen senses—methodology of the first order merging with gut instinct of man and beast—and all while timing is critical. The window for live rescues following an earthquake is typically 72 hours.
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3 weeks ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

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1,650,000

3 weeks ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

In 2004 the stalls off a main road in Malawi’s capital had turned to coffin making. Rough wooden caskets lined “Coffin Row” in Lilongwe and sold for a premium as death became a growth industry and carpenters worked round the clock to meet demand. At that time the African nation’s life expectancy was in freefall in the midst of Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic—dropping from 43 years in 1996 to 39 years by 2000.
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleeding

1 month ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Ukrainians every night via video hookup, sometimes from his office, sometimes on the frontlines, sometimes in an undisclosed location for his safety. You can watch his addresses on YouTube or on the presidential website, where there are 223 pages of them starting in January 2022. That’s when it became clear Russian President Vladimir Putin intended to invade Ukraine.
Transatlantic turmoil

1 month ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue (including mine). Psalm 120 “gets us out of an environment of deceit and hostility and sets us on our way to God,” writes Eugene Peterson. So much of so-called Christian behavior is embedded in our legal system and social expectations as to be coercive. We don’t know how much murder, theft, perjury and falsification would happen apart from the law. “But worship is not forced,” writes Peterson.
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1 month ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

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Forever and forgotten wars

2 months ago | mindybelz.substack.com | Mindy Belz

Don Bosco IDP camp in Goma had 28,000 people residing there the day I visited last year. Goma is a city of 2-3 million that’s the capital of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province. Don Bosco is what aid workers call a spontaneous camp, started by homeless war victims in late 2022 who reached the city for protection.
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