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The Interview: UK Christian apologist Amy Orr-Ewing on suffering

The Interview: UK Christian apologist Amy Orr-Ewing on suffering

Best-selling UK-based Christian author, speaker and lecturer Dr Amy Orr-Ewing speaks with DAVID ADAMS about her new book, 'Where is God in all the Suffering?'...

US election: Black church turnout effort mobilises against alleged voter suppression

US election: Black church turnout effort mobilises against alleged voter suppression

ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, on how Black churches in the US are encouraging congregations to vote in the US election...

"Crushing blow": Pandemic hammers struggling Kashmir tourism

ATHAR PARVAIZ, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the COVID-19 pandemic - which comes on top of eight months of tight security restrictions - is impacting tourism in the Indian-administered territory of Kashmir...

Locked up during COVID-19: Costly phone calls strain families

Locked up during COVID-19: Costly phone calls strain families

AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the high costs of communications out of US prisons is taking a toll on inmates during the coronavirus pandemic... 

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

MEGAN ROWLING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a failure to provide access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing the global economy trillions a year ...

The Statistic

1st October, 2020
Number of the world's nations which still criminalise transgender people: At least 13
Source: UN

 

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Moments

1st October, 2020
ACQUITTED: By an Indian court, 32 people accused of crimes in the 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence leaving some 2,000 people dead.
DIED: Australian-born singer Helen Reddy, whose 1972 song I Am Woman became a global feminist anthem, in Los Angeles at age 78.
ADMITTED: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern that she tried cannabis "a long time ago" when asked during a heated live debate on Wednesday ahead of the country's 17th October general election.

 

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In an article first published on The Conversation, ROGER J KREUZ, professor of psychology at the University of Memphis, looks at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on language...

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In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academic KEVORK OSKANIAN looks at what the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is all about...

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As questions continue to swirl around the faith of US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, US-based professor of religious studies MATHEW SCHMALZ takes a look at - in an article first published on The Conversation - what charismatic Catholics believe...

They Said It

"I don't know who Proud Boys are. You'll have to give me a definition because I really don't know who they are. I can only say they have to stand down and let law enforcement do their work."
- US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in the aftermath of the first 2020 election debate between himself and Democratic candidate Joe Biden in which he refused to issue a blanket condemnation of white supremacist groups and when asked specifically by Biden to denounce the Proud Boys group, said "Proud boys: Stand back and stand by" (as quoted on US News and World Report).

 

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This Week on the Web

1st October, 2020
Religious women voters will play a major role in determining the outcome of the US election, according to an op-ed from a group of US female faith leaders published under the umbrella of Faith in Public Life. Read 'Calling all women: It’s time to take our stand together against tyranny and injustice', published by Religion News Service, here...

 

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The Word Explained

28th September, 2020
(The) Fall: The first man and woman's stumble from obeying God to guilty disobedience. The mix of obedience and disobedience has been with humanity ever since.

 

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