by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 11, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Alarm rings at 5 a.m. Wash face, stuff backpack, stumble out the door of my hostel by 5:30 am and try to find where I can have café con leche. Walk three miles in the morning chill— sometimes in the 40s, sometimes in the 50s. Stop for breakfast, usually a Spanish...
by Simon Jones | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
A Facebook feed memory stopped me in my tracks. Normally these things are innocuous — posts about meeting friends, delivering a talk, something funny heard on the bus — but this cast me back six years to a wintry afternoon in the so-called “Calais jungle,” listening...
by Monty Self | Apr 14, 2020 | Opinion
Harold Abraham Weill, the chief rabbi of Strasbourg, France, said the majority of the Jewish population in the city was infected with COVID-19. “How many people [in the Jewish community] have been infected? I believe maybe 50%, maybe 60% or 70%,” Weill estimated,...
by Robert Parham | Nov 16, 2015 | Opinion
As soon as reports appeared on the Paris attacks, the global faith community turned to Twitter to express solidarity for those who suffered and to pray for the victims and their families. Catholic News Agency offered an early tweet: “Join us as we...
by Paul Hobson | Aug 28, 2015 | News
It’s been the focus of much coverage this summer, but beyond the headlines what’s life like for those living in the Calais “jungle,” a makeshift migrant camp near the French coastal city? And is there anything those moved by the unfolding...
