Zaghari-Ratcliffe touched down at Brize Norton, a Royal Air Force station based in Oxfordshire, in the early hours of Thursday morning to be greeted by her family.
It may be that Macron is playing a dangerous game. The suspicion of a confiscated campaign is becoming more and more intense in French opinion.
The rise of Turkish-led, Muslim-dominated parties backed expressly by immigrant communities isn’t a phenomenon that’s confined to the Netherlands. Similar parties have cropped up in Sweden, Austria, Spain, France, Greece and Bulgaria.
France finds itself in the ‘dock’ of Europe’s top human rights court over its censorial approach to an infomercial featuring joyful people with Down Syndrome.
Tradition tells us that giants are born from fallen angels joining themselves to willing humans, and that even after these are slain, their specters may yet demand sacrifice. We are still facing giants today, as well as the ghosts they leave behind, and may learn something from those ancient tales.
I would argue that we are more convincing conservatives than the Conservative Party, who haven’t conserved anything. Their record is abysmal.
Malian authorities claimed allegations concerning the military killing of civilians, as reported by French outlets, are a strategy aimed at destabilising the political transition, demoralising the Malian people and discrediting the Malian army.
Russia eventually took the lead and effectively left the Council. In the statement announcing their decision, Russian authorities emphasised the forced nature of their departure.
The first days of the strike seemed to have little effect on goods moving through the country. By the end of the week though, deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and seafood to market hubs had fallen drastically.
The act of consecration will be pronounced on Annunciation Day, Friday, March 25th, during the celebration of Penance that Pope Francis will preside over at 5pm in St Peter’s Basilica.
The government, for its part, has accused truckers, fishermen, and other sectors currently organizing protests in Spain, of constituting an economic “boycott motivated by the extreme right.”
If this book had been well-argued and informed by a serious engagement with Christian theology, it might have been a real contribution to contemporary debates about how Christians should engage with politics. Instead, the author relies on caricatures, oversimplification, and fearmongering.
