The parade of Ukrainian hostages by pro-Russian separatists through the streets of Donetsk over the weekend is the kind of ‘humiliating and degrading treatment’ the Geneva Convention was signed 150 years ago last Friday to prevent. The convention – officially…
Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, a seemingly innocent event took place on the border of Hungary and Austria which catalysed the downfall of the Berlin Wall. Alongside the centennial commemorations of World War One we wrote about last week, we should…
This month we entered a four-year season of remembrance and commemoration. Through a barrage of television documentaries and newspaper articles, we will be reminded of the battles of World War One: Verdun, the Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli, Jutland and many more.…
Christians have often suspected human rights to be the product of humanistic Enlightenment thinkers devising ways to sideline the Church and religion in the public square. With abortion, euthanasia and even infanticide being claimed as human rights today, many Christians…
The world watched on as Holland mourned this past week. Four days in a row, the same somber ceremony was performed at Eindhoven Airport, as coffin after coffin was respectfully unloaded from the Hercules aircraft into scores of waiting hearses.…
