BOSTON – The fight against natural gas pipelines in Massachusetts hasn't subsided in the wake of Kinder Morgan's suspension of its controversial $3.3 billion Northeast Energy Direct project.
More than 150 anti-pipeline demonstrators gathered outside the State House Tuesday to call for an end to other proposed pipelines in the state, their chants of "No to pipelines" and "Yes to clean energy" drowning out the notes of "America the Beautiful" playing from a Laborers International Union of North America truck that displayed pro-pipeline messages while waiting in traffic nearby.
NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help.
"Friends, I am a priest. I cannot abandon hope," he said. "But at the same time I see reality in front of me every day. My people are losing hope – my people are losing hope, and we are disappearing."
