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On AI itself, Pope Leo calls for technological projects that protect what he describes as the grandeur of humanity. He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories.

Pope Leo’s AI encyclical and the urgent need for human leadership

He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it…

Hallowed halls: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Andrew Price

Not in ritual; but restriction

As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths

The devastation at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran after a US-Israel missile strike this weekend: Images: Fars News Agency

Khamenei killing puts limits of self-defence under UN Charter to the test

The United Nations Charter prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, the only recognised exception being…

Carrying the can: A Palestinian woman fills her containers with water in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, this week. Israel has been controlling Palestinians’ access to water for decades. Photo: Said Khatib/Getty Images

Water is used as a weapon against Palestinian people

Israel regularly restricts, controls and blocks access to water, and chops down vital olive trees

(Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Calling it a ‘conflict’ helps to sustain Israel’s occupation of Palestine

Because Israel is an occupying nation, Israeli violence and Palestinian resistance should not be portrayed as equivalent

GAZA CITY, GAZA – MAY 17: A man walks past a damaged apartment after Israeli warplanes strike headquarters of the Qatari Red Crescent Society in al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on May 17, 2021. Since May 10, the Israeli army has launched incessant attacks on Gaza killing at least 200 Palestinians, including 59 children and 35 women, and injuring 1,305 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel-Palestine: It’s a myth that there are two equal sides in this conflict

SA BDS Coalition calls for the world to listen to what Israel’s actions are saying and apply full sanctions against that apartheid state

Israeli forces intervene in Palestinians protesting Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip with tear gas during a demonstration held as part of the 73rd anniversary of Nakba, on May 17, 2021 in Nablus, West Bank. (Photo by Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel-Palestine conflict: The past laid the violent foundations

Israel’s iron grip over Palestinians had its beginnings in the demise of the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France’s arbitrary mapping out of the Middle East

A protester holds a Palestinian flag as smoke rises from a burning tyre.

Call Israel what it is: An apartheid state

The Nakba began with the establishment of Israel in 1948 and has never ended. Palestinian are still removed from their land and their home and are still being killed and…

5 May 2021: Israeli forces take a Palestinian man into custody during a protest in Sheikh Jarrah against the Israeli government’s plan to force Palestinian families out of their homes. (Photograph by Mostafa Alkharouf/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sheikh Jarrah Palestinians at mercy of Israeli court

Palestinians in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood face court-sanctioned eviction in what rights groups say is a continuation of Israel’s decades-long plan to ‘ethnically…

Sacred site: The monolithic rock-cut church of Saint George in Lalibela, Ethiopia is one of 12 churches there hewn from rock.  (Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images)

A pilgrimage to Lalibela’s stone carved churches

For the people who live near this sacred site in Ethiopa, religion is woven into daily life

(Reuters)

Trump pays in messiah money

The Trump coin, at least, echoes another element of the BIN story about the Pilgrim’s Road. It mentions some coins found during the excavations

Former military chief Benny Gantz (pictured) poses a serious threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to extend his already 13 years in office. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Netanyahu election rival calls for probe after phone hack

Israel’s Channel 12 television reported last week that Benny Gantz’s telephone had been hacked by Iranian intelligence

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Netanyahu hails ‘new era’ with Brazil

Netanyahu also stressed that he would press Bolsonaro on an announcement that Brazil would follow the US in moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right leader of Brazil’s Social Liberal Party, react during the election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Bolsonaro openly holds democracy in contempt. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

South Africa’s not that different from Brazil

South Africans could embrace an authoritarian state if the government fails to address current social and economic issues

George Sebulela. (Robert Tshabalala/Financial Mail)

Israel releases Palestinian teen jailed for slapping soldiers

Israeli authorities appeared keen to avoid media coverage of the release as much as possible