has covered Harvard for nearly a decade – most of the time living half a mile from campus.
According to the Air Force, he commanded a special operations squadron, an expeditionary squadron, an operations group and a special operations wing. He also led the task force that coordinated the repositioning of U.S. forces from Somalia and headed Special Operations Command, Africa, from 2019 to 2021.Africa Command is the newest of the Pentagon’s geographic commands and covers the bulk of the African continent. Much of the U.S. military’s efforts there have focused on combatting extremist groups and training local forces.
Anderson would be the seventh general to head Africa Command. To date, four of the previous leaders were Army generals and two were Marines.Anderson is from Ypsilanti, Michigan, and graduated from the ROTC program at Washington University in St. Louis.SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge in El Salvador ordered a
of some of President Nayib Bukele’s policies to be jailed Wednesday for six months on illegal enrichment charges.Earlier, Ruth Leonora López had demanded a public trial as police brought her before the judge. Wednesday’s hearing was closed to the public as the case is under seal.
Observers say the case against López is retaliation for her work while authorities allege she aided one of her former employers being prosecuted for embezzlement. Authorities
The anticorruption lawyer, who works for the nongovernmental organization Cristosal, has denied the accusations.Hidden Christianity is linked to the communal ties that formed when Japan was a largely agricultural society. Those ties crumbled as the country modernized after WWII, with recent developments revolutionizing people’s lives, even in rural Japan.
The accompanying decline in the population of farmers and young people, along with women increasingly working outside of the home, has made it difficult to maintain the tight networks that nurtured Hidden Christianity.“In a society of growing individualism, it is difficult to keep Hidden Christianity as it is,” said Shigeo Nakazono, the head of a local folklore museum who has researched and interviewed Hidden Christians for 30 years. Hidden Christianity has a structural weakness, he said, because there are no professional religious leaders tasked with teaching doctrine and adapting the religion to environmental changes.
Nakazono has started collecting artifacts and archiving video interviews he’s done with Hidden Christians since the 1990s, seeking to preserve a record of the endangered religion.Mase-Hasegawa agreed that Hidden Christianity is on its way to extinction. “As a researcher, it will be a huge loss,” she said.