ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་ཀུན་གླེང་གསར་འགྱུར་ནང་བོད་དིང་རིའི་ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་ཞེ་དགུའི་མཆོད་འབུལ་སྨོན་ལམ་གནང་བ་དང་། ཁོར་ཡུག་ལས་འགུལ་བ་མཚོ་སྔོན་ཚེ་རིང་ལགས་ཀྱི་བཙོན་འཇུག་ཟླ་བ་བརྒྱད་འཕར་འགྱངས་བྱས་པ། ཨ་རི་དང་ཨུ་རུ་སུའི་སྲིད་འཛིན་རྣམ་གཉིས་མཇལ་འཆར། བླ་ཆེན་པོབ་ཀྱི་སྐུ་གཟུགས་གནས་སྟངས་ཇེ་ཞན་དུ་གྱུར་བ་སོགས་ཡོད།
Global Solidarity and Ongoing Challenges in Tibet’s Earthquake Recovery - JG. A solemn prayer service (Zhi-gu) was held at Tsuglagkhang Temple to honor victims of the devastating January 7 earthquake in Tibet, with similar services taking place worldwide. The CTA has urged restraint from festive gatherings during Tibetan New Year as a gesture of solidarity. Meanwhile, in the hardest-hit areas of Dram Tso, Chu Lho, and Tso Go, relief efforts continue, with temporary housing provided and basic necessities supplied, though reconstruction faces setbacks due to strict government regulations and weather conditions. Restrictions on external communication make it difficult to assess the full impact, while private donations were redirected to county headquarters, limiting direct aid. According to information received by VOA Tibetan Service, the death toll has reached 134, with over 20 monasteries and religious institutions damaged. Additionally, Chinese officials report that more than 3,600 homes have been destroyed.
Tibetan Environmental Activist Tsongon Tsering given additional prison sentence.
Chinese authorities have sentenced Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering to an additional eight months in prison after he refused to accept his initial conviction. Last year, he was arrested and sentenced to eight months for exposing illegal sand and mineral extraction by an Anhui-based construction company under the guise of road construction. Initially detained in Kyungchu County prison, he was recently transferred to Ngaba Prefecture prison in Barkham County. Meanwhile, he remains denied visitors, and his family faces threats of harsher sentences if they speak out, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Trump-Putin summit preparations underway
Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on February 22, marking a clear departure from Western efforts to isolate Moscow over its war in Ukraine. Last week, U.S. and Russian envoys met in Saudi Arabia, agreeing to restore embassy staffing, support Ukraine peace talks, and explore economic cooperation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized the talks were preliminary, while Russia called them “useful.” Since no Ukrainian officials were invited, President Zelenskyy rejected any outcome from the meeting. European allies voiced concerns over being sidelined as Ukraine continues to lose ground against Russian forces.
Pope Francis in critical condition but remains alert as prayers pour in.
The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure, but he remains alert and “well-oriented.” Prayers for him poured in from around the world, from his native Argentina to the seat of Sunni Islam in Cairo to schoolchildren in Rome. In New York, Cardinal Dolan said what many in Rome weren’t saying publicly, that the Catholic faithful were united “at the bedside of a dying father.” On Saturday morning, Francis suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection. He also had blood transfusions to treat a low platelet count.
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ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན་ནི་༡༩༩༠་ཕྱི་ཟླ་༢་ཚེས་༡༦་ཉིན་ཨ་རིའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བོད་མི་དམངས་ལ་རང་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ལས་རིམ་ཞིག་འཛུགས་དགོས་པའི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་སྟེ་ཚུགས་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན། ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་བོད་སྐད་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱིས་བདུན་ཕྲག་རེར་ཆུ་ཚོད་གཉིས་རེའི་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་དང་ཆུ་ཚོད་༢༤་རེའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་བོད་ལ་ཐད་ཀར་རྒྱང་སྲིང་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད།
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