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[https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15] | ||
All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged. | All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged. | ||
=====Ukraine’s religious community perseveres through the horrors of war===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraines-religious-community-perseveres-through-the-horrors-of-war by Nick Schifrin 12/5/22 PBS NEWS] | |||
We are just weeks past Easter, the holiest day of the Christian calendar. For the 70 percent of Ukrainians who are orthodox, the day was freighted with extra meaning this year. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church split from its Russian parent when Vladimir Putin first invaded Ukraine eight years ago, and now religion's role in the conflict is front and center. Nick Schifrin reports. | |||
