THE MIGRANT ONLINE
Away with the jackets because we’re in the warmest season. Most people from the tropics always look forward to the summer season because the temperature is similar to that of their homelands. It could even be so sweltering that cold water is provided at public places. In the summer, people could look forward to outdoor…
When the Reverend Babinton Macaulay had a dream of founding a school, and James Pinson Labulo Davies bought into the dream by providing a seed funding of 50 pounds sterling to buy books and equipment for the school, I’m not sure the positive collaborators realized they were up to something that would change the facet…
Photo credit: the Guardian The crowd that assembled outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday morning was small and muted. International pilgrims jostled with dark-robed Greek Orthodox monks, but one group of native worshippers was absent. The Guardian reports that for generations, tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians living in Israeli-occupied…
Photo credit: UN The authorities in the US are scaling back the State Department’s annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process. NPR reports that the reports are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid…
Dear Saint Luke’s family and friends, A spiritually rich weekend at Saint Luke’s. On Saturday, we hosted a “Migrants Lenten March” organized by Saint Luke’s newly initiated Ministry with Newcomers. Gathering together were participants from various United Churches and representatives from migrants advocacy organizations and refugee support groups with a large number from the network…
Never again will I join in blaming Baba Adan for not taking Nigerians seriously when they say there is hunger in the land. Barely a week ago, Obi Cubana shut Abuja down for his fiftieth birthday. The party was so big that most people didn’t notice that the birthday of the world’s wealthiest black man…
Photo credit: Aljazeera US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni met at the White House and signaled hope for a new US-EU trade deal highlighting a growing ideological alignment between the two conservative leaders. The Times of India reports that Meloni would be the first European leader to meet Trump after he…
