Decisions are made in an Oval office. The effects ripple out in a global tsunami like a post-atomic explosion. Over a period of 415 days the outcomes are shared in a story by the numbers. The stories are summed up in the life of one mother named, Rovina.
Francis Farrell is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent, on the front lines. He offers insight into what it's like to be on the ground with Ukrainian troops.
Many Christians today sense a darkening theological horizon, storm clouds gathering of a sort we haven’t seen before, at least not in a long, long time.
Amina greeted me at 6:35 AM inside the Cardiac Care ward of the CK Hui Heart Centre where she's worked for over five years as a nurse. She was the first of what would be a dozen nurses, RNs, specialists, and doctors doing what they do every day to give people like me better odds at a healthy, longer life.