Despite that, America’s top diplomat highlighted the uncertainty of a larger peace deal that the U.S. is trying to broker between Ukraine and Russia.
“Yes, it helps so much,” said the Mexican immigrant. “It takes the stress away from you.”Limber Saliero, a roofer from Ecuador who has been worshipping at St. Paul’s for more than a year, said he had never heard of acupuncture but decided to try it.
“I felt like an energy that was flowing into me,” he said.Vanessa Arcos tried acupuncture with her sister and her father, while her mother got a Reiki treatment. The family started attending the church the week they arrived in Minnesota from their home state of Guerrero, Mexico, almost a decade ago.Lying in the lounge chair next to a statue of the
, Arcos said she overcame her fear of needles and found the treatment relaxing for both muscles and mind.“It felt very peaceful, very safe,” Arcos said. “It’s important to do little things for yourself.”
This story has been updated to correct Lizete Vega’s job title to family engagement coordinator instead of its Latino outreach coordinator. It has also been corrected to reflect that Limber Saliero has worshipped at St. Paul’s for more than a year, instead of five years.
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“It’s very clear that their intention with this statement is not to actually address their worker concerns, but rather to make a PR stunt to whitewash their image that has been tarnished by their relationship with the Israeli military,” said Hossam Nasr, a former Microsoft workerafter he helped organize an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza.
Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, applauded Microsoft Friday for taking a step toward transparency. But she said the statement raised many unanswered questions, including details about how Microsoft’s services and AI models were being used by the Israeli military on its own government servers.“I’m glad there’s a little bit of transparency here,” said Cohn, who has long called on U.S. tech giants to be more open about their military contracts. “But it is hard to square that with what’s actually happening on the ground.”