NEWARK, N.J. -- A type of explosive widely used during the Vietnam War has been found in luggage at Newark Liberty International Airport. Officials s...
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 04.15.2012
During a recent trip to Southeast Asia the lives of some hidden communities and new considerations and issues came to my attention that relate to our ...
Posted 02.14.2012
Finally, we got another glimmer of the '63's experience on "Alcatraz" (Mon., 9 p.m. EST on Fox). When Paxton Petty managed to disable Hauser by gettin...
AP | Posted 01.29.2012
JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel. In a statement Sunday, defense officia...
AP | By MAGGIE FICK | Posted 08.04.2011
JUBA, Sudan -- An increase in military battles in Southern Sudan has resulted in the laying of new land mines, reversing the time-consuming progress d...
Posted 07.19.2011
By Judith Sudilovsky Religion News Service QASR EL YAHUD, West Bank (RNS/ENInews) Pilgrims are flowing back to the traditional site of Jesus' bapt...
The Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Early next year, anti-narcotics police will begin deploying squads of rats to sniff out land mines in remote areas of Colombia where leftist rebels an...
Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's not be apologists for badvocacy. We must not ignore the fact that bringing advocacy about various issues to different parts of the western world will be met with different reactions.
Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011
Kandahar Break offers a love story as old as Romeo and Juliet at the core of a more contemporary thriller, every scene of which is packed with suspense.
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
We in the U.S. need to show our own determination to foster the works of mercy rather than the works of war. The emergency hospital staff, unarmed and courageous, provide a fine example.
Queen Noor of Jordan | Posted 05.25.2011
The time has come for the U.S., the world's most powerful high-tech military, to give up its low-tech stockpile of ten million antipersonnel landmines.
AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Ke...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts. In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...
McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011
Homemade bombs go off almost every day in Iraq, usually targeting military and police convoys in cities such as Baghdad and Mosul....
AP | Posted 05.02.2012