The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday April 6th, 2022 – International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) is an annual celebration of the power of sport to drive social change, community development and to foster peace and understanding. Created by the United Nations General Assembly in 23 August 2013, supported by the International Olympic Committee since 6 April 2014. This date commemorates the inauguration, in 1896, of the first Olympic games of the modern era, in Athens, Greece.
Weaponizing Coal: #Australia Gives #Ukraine a Gift by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Few would forget the antics of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, as Treasurer, entered Parliament with a lump of coal and proceeded to praise it with the enthusiasm of a fetish worshipper. “Don’t be afraid,” he told fellow parliamentarians. “Don’t be scared.”
He has, with deep reluctance, conceded that climate change is taking place and, with even deeper reluctance, that human agency might be involved. But under his leadership, the fossil fuel lobby of Australia has no reason to fear. Denialism has simply become more covert.
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All day I’ve dreamed of you #poem by Abigail George
“Once, once you were like Persia to me.
For the last time, show me the ways
to love. Cue me its despair. It’s hardship.”
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Hans Kung: Towards a Global Ethic by Rene Wadlow
Hans Kung was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian who died on 6 April 2021 at the age of 93. He always stressed the Swiss aspect of his life, its democratic traditions, and the need to discuss widely before making a decision. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne University in Paris on the Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth (1886 – 1968) who spent most of his teaching life at Bale University.
Kung always hoped that some of the democratic spirit would enter the Roman Catholic Church, and he had high hopes at the time of the Vatican II conference which brought some reforms to Church administration. Kung also saw Vatican II as a time when Catholic thinkers such as Pierre Teihard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) who had been marginalized were again being read. However, the conservative forces within the Church and especially within the Vatican itself regained influence. The more liberal voices were less heard, and in some cases were driven out of the Church itself.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #010 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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