At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a \”new massacre\” in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
At first it is an anguish so deep that it destroys faith in life. We are witnesses to pain and loss so immense that to yearn for a resting place, to find anything good or hopeful or healing, feels like a betrayal. In the face of such tragedy, do we seek out sparks of hope because we are healers or deniers?
The White House revealed the first steps of a gun-control plan on Wednesday as the United States grieved for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in another wave of funerals.
There’s been a lot of talk in the news about what to say to children about the massacre at Sandy Hook. A steady stream of experts attempting to provide some sort of parental protocol for addressing this unimaginable tragedy with our kids.
Veronique Pozner remembered her son Noah as a rambunctious, video-game loving \”little man,\” a boy with a perpetual smile and twinkly blue eyes who dreamed of becoming a doctor, a soldier and manager of a factory that makes tacos — his favorite food.
As the family of Newtown massacre victim Noah Pozner prepared for the 6-year-old\’s funeral, the family\’s synagogue began collecting money for the Pozners.
It has been 13 years since the murders at Columbine High School, when two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. Since that time, ABC reports, there have been 31 school shootings.
\”We have got to get Michelle to make this her priority.\”
When something happens that overwhelms our emotions – as when a shooter murders 20 schoolchildren in cold blood- we get dizzy and out of balance. The shock and horror are too much to take.
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