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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Syrian women using fake weddings to flee Idlib
In the extremist-held province, women are seeking sham marriages in Turkey as a means of escape. After long years of displacement, Syrian families who have moved to Idlib, now under the control of the extremist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, face a challenge: they are not considered to be religious enough. For the young women of these families, marrying men in neighboring Turkey was their escape from the conservative Idlib, a way out that could be approved by their families who would not have let them leave on their own.
In the extremist-held province, women are seeking sham marriages in Turkey as a means of escape. After long years of displacement, Syrian families who have moved to Idlib, now under the control of the extremist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, face a challenge: they are not considered to be religious enough. For the young women of these families, marrying men in neighboring Turkey was their escape from the conservative Idlib, a way out that could be approved by their families who would not have let them leave on their own.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Any day now, the government of Bangladesh may become the first country to approve the growing of a variety of yellow rice by farmers known as Golden Rice. If so, this would be a momentous victory in a long and exhausting battle fought by scientists and humanitarians to tackle a huge human health problem—a group that’s faced a great deal of opposition by misguided critics of genetically modified foods.
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from The National Interest Magazine
In February 2019, the Polish ministry of defense issued plans to procure thirty-two “fifth-generation [stealth] jets” for its Harpia fighter program to replace the Polish Air Force’s aging Soviet-era MiG-29 and Su-22 jets. As the F-35 Lightning II is currently the only fifth-generation stealth fighter on the market—unless you count the Su-57 sold by Russia, Poland’s chief potential adversary—there’s little doubt as to which aircraft is being referred to. In April 2019, the United States confirmed it was considering selling F-35s to Poland, as well as Greece, Romania, Singapore and Spain.
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Did Jesus fail to meet expectations in Matt 11?
What are the things that cause John to doubt Jesus and his ministry—and what might cause us similar doubts?
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from Smithsonian Magazine
Media/News Company in Washington, D.C.
Archaeologists now can more closely date when the religion spread to the Aksumite Empire. In the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia, a team of archaeologists recently uncovered the oldest known Christian church in sub-Saharan Africa, a find that sheds new light on one of the Old World’s most enigmatic kingdoms—and its surprisingly early conversion to Christianity. An international assemblage of scientists discovered the church 30 miles northeast of Aksum, the capital of the Aksumite kingdom, a trading empire that emerged in the first century A.D. and would go on to dominate much of eastern Africa and western Arabia. Through radiocarbon dating artifacts uncovered at the church, the researchers concluded that the structure was built in the fourth century A.D., about the same time when Roman Emperor Constantine I legalized Christianty in 313 CE and then converted on his deathbed in 337 CE. The team detailed their findings in a paper published today in Antiquity. The discovery of the church and its contents confirm Ethiopian tradition that Christianity arrived at an early date in an area nearly 3,000 miles from Rome. The find suggests that the new religion spread quickly through long-distance trading networks that linked the Mediterranean via the Red Sea with Africa and South Asia, shedding fresh light on a significant era about which historians know little.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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