Linda Colley encapsulate a common purpose to define power, the rights and responsibilities of states and citizens by starting with the Corsican Constitution of 1755 as both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia with her remarkable Nakaz to Sierra Leone’s James Africanus Horton to Tunisia’s Khayr-al-Din, a creator of…
Pope Francis visits churches destroyed by ISIS in Northern Iraq on Sunday in the ruins of the churches and celebrate an open-air mass on the last day of the first-ever visit by any pontiff, healing the wounds of sectarian violence and to pray for the dead of any religion. The Pope heard Muslim and Christian…