Rev. Danny Fisher

Via deathpower: The Guardian is currently featuring an extraordinarily powerful collection of photographs by Walter Schels. The photos are of terminally-ill individuals before and after their deaths. (Schels and his wife Beate Lakotta also share stories from this project with Guardian writer Joanna Moorhead here.)

Edelgard Clavey, the woman pictured above, told Schels this:

Death is a test of one’s maturity. Everyone has got to get through it on their own. I want very much to die. I want to become part of that vast extraordinary light. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait. I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back.

From Amnesty International:

Ahmad Harun, Sudan’s former Minister of the Interior and current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, and Janjawid leader Ali Kushayb, are charged with multiple counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. Amnesty International is campaigning for their arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the Government of Sudan continues to refuse to do so. Call on U.S. authorities to take action to press the government of Sudan to arrest and surrender Harun and Kushayb to the ICC.

Send letters to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United States Mission to the UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad here.

This via Sarah Todd over at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog: NPR’s Alex Chadwick talks with Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Thitzana, who is based in the Los Angeles area, about his interpretations of the Cyclone Nargis tragedy.

Visit http://www.burmaitcantwait.org.