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Rene Javier Perez took leave of his wife Miliana Morales and their 2-month-old daughter Gladys in the Guatemalan town of Chiquimula. Unfortunately, the years did not unfold as planned. Sometimes you just can't summon the strength to fight for yourself anymore; sometimes you stop believing that things will get any better; worst of all, sometimes it's true. The tired, the poor, the huddled masses of...
SIFF Cinema brings you a series of Shakespeare-themed films that starts off Friday with My Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant’s (in)famous film about two Portland hustlers played by Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix that was inspired by Henry IV. On Saturday check out the 1952 Cannes Film Festival winning film, Othello, directed by the [...]
President Bush is in town today for what is likely his last visit as president. After a closed door fundraiser for embattled Republicans, he'll meet privately with a group of Cuban-American leaders. The Republican who won the presidency with the...
THE Dalai Lama has undergone successful surgery in a New Delhi hospital to remove gallstones and expects to resume his duties by the end of the month, a senior aide said today.
The Dalai Lama has undergone successful surgery in a New Delhi hospital to remove gallstones and expects to resume his duties by the end of the month, a senior aide said today.
Surgeons successfully removed a gallstone from the Dalai Lama on Friday, just days after doctors had cleared the Tibetan spiritual leader during a medical checkup, a spokesman said.
The U.N. human rights envoy for Burma is calling on that country’s government to substantially improve human rights before the 2010 elections. In a report Wednesday, envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana said that if the elections take place in an atmosphere in which human rights are fully respected, the vote will be seen as credible. He outlined a [...]
The Nobel literary committee today infuriated the bookies, delighted the bookish and thumbed its nose, again, at the American book industry. The 2008 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a half-British French novelist and philosopher, who lives in America and champions the "lost" wisdom of non-Western cultures.
1. In the earliest Hebrew manuscripts Ezra and Nehemiah were one book. 2. Ezra follows the outline listed below: Ezra 1:1 to 2:70 first group of exiles return to Judah Ezra 3:1 to 6:22 the temple is rebuilt Ezra 7:1 to 10:44 Ezra returns and beings ministry 3. Scholars think the author of Ezra/Nehemiah also wrote Chronicles 1 and 2. They all share certain characteristics. 4. The writing of Ezra has...
A quick Midlands photography round-up. The big news is a public talk in the West Midlands by Doc Rowe on 18th November 08, at the Herbert in Coventry. While you’re there, pop into Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A which is on national tour from London. It shows a [...]
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI is urging the world's peoples to be more welcoming of immigrants and refugees to their countries. In a message released Wednesday in Vatican City, the Roman Catholic Pontiff said special attention should be given to refugees and exiles, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The Pontiff also exhorted people to live fully in fraternal love without distinction...
A Zimbabwe activism group, Save Zimbabwe Campaign Coalition, has lashed out at the South African government for corruption and ill treatment of refugees at Home Affairs and refugee centres across the country - after the child of an exile was killed in a police raid at a Cape Town Home Affairs office last week.
The Fifth Samdhong Rinpoche is the Kalon Tripa Tibet's parliament in exile has scheduled an emergency meeting in mid-November. Spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, requested the legislators adopt a resolution on the future of the Tibetan movement following the political unrest in their homeland this year. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman traveled to Dharamsala in northern India, the home of the
This forgotten 1961 indie is set largely in L.A.'s working-class Bunker Hill district, since razed for office towers. It's a lost film in a lost neighborhood full of lost people; you can't get much more forlorn than that. Shot over three years without location sound by Kent MacKenzie,...
