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3 days ago | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

Geneva, SwitzerlandReutersThe number of people who have fled Sudan since the beginning of its civil war in 2023 has surpassed four million, UN refugee agency officials said on Tuesday, adding that many survivors faced inadequate shelter due to funding shortages. A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Geneina in Sudan’s Darfur region, talks to her relative through a fence next to makeshift shelters, in Adre, Chad on 5th August, 2023.

4 days ago | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

Years of turmoil had left Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a tarnished reputation and a financial crisis. David Dockery, a low-key new leader, helped right the ship. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…United StatesRNSFor much of the past decade, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

4 days ago | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

ADRIANA MARIN, in an article first published on The Conversation, explains that ‘narco-femicide’ refers not simply to the killing of women, but to the strategic use of gendered violence by criminal organisations…Mexico’s drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth.

4 days ago | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, takes a look at the Jewish festival which started in the US this year just hours after an attack targeting a Jewish gathering in Boulder, Colorado…United StatesAPSunday afternoon’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot. Authorities say a man threw two incendiary devices into a group holding one of its regular rallies in solidarity with Israeli hostages in Gaza.

4 days ago | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

Bhubaneswar, India/Dhaka, BangladeshReutersAt least 34 people have died in India’s north-eastern region after heavy floods caused landslides over the last four days, authorities and media said on Monday, and the weather department predicted more heavy rain.