2024
March
12
Tuesday

Monitor Daily Podcast

March 12, 2024
Error loading media: File could not be played
 
00:0000:0000:00
00:00

Many hoped for a Ramadan cease-fire in Gaza. But as that hope fades, for now, residents are navigating a holy month whose familiar pillars of community and charity have all but disappeared.

“There’s a feeling the community is turning in on itself, and breaking down,” says correspondent Taylor Luck, who writes about that today with a Gaza correspondent. “The principles of society are under threat.” Food is scarce and often fought over. A sense of community once found as people broke their fast after sunset prayers and returned to mosques for additional prayers and seeing friends has disappeared amid dislocation.

Yet “popular protection groups” have formed. Some nongovernmental organizations are trying to help. And even amid the chaos, people are organizing how to be together for prayers.


You've read 3 of 3 free articles. Subscribe to continue.

Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

Today’s news briefs

Monitor Breakfast

Andrei Popoviciu
Ndeymour (center) and Harriet Batchelor (right) work in the Green Wave jewelry workshop, where all the employees are women coming out of shelters.
Liz Lauren
“Illinoise,” shown at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, opens at New York’s Park Avenue Armory on March 7 after its Chicago run. Based on the beloved album by Sufjan Stevens, the show combines dance and a dialogueless narrative that is not quite a musical, not quite ballet.

Essay

David Brion

The Monitor's View

AP
An empty elementary school classroom is seen in 2021 in New York City.

A Christian Science Perspective

About this feature

Viewfinder

Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
Some of the over 2,000 rhinos sold to African Parks are seen in captivity, ahead of a rewilding process planned for the next 10 years, at a farm outside Klerksdorp, South Africa, March 12, 2024.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thanks for spending time with us today. Tomorrow, Laurent Belsie and Leo Bevilacqua will delve into how the challenge of buying a first home in the United States has expanded – becoming a hardship for young workers and the economy.

More issues

2024
March
12
Tuesday
CSM logo

Why is Christian Science in our name?

Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that.

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, put it.

Here, you’ll find award-winning journalism not driven by commercial influences – a news organization that takes seriously its mission to uplift the world by seeking solutions and finding reasons for credible hope.

Explore values journalism About us