2013: a year of highs and lows

AS 2013 closes, here is my countdown of what were the stories that left the most impression on me during the year.

In January, I heard that 60,000 people had died in Syria’s bitter civil war, and in February, George Zimmerman, a white 30-year-old man from Florida, fatally shot a black teenager, Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman said it was self-defence, and not racism. In July, he was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter.

In March, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope for the Catholic Church and gave us all hope for the Church’s future.