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Mission in the age of COVID: Access, travel rules influence missionary vaccine policies

Mission in the age of COVID: Access, travel rules influence missionary vaccine policies

HOLLY MEYER, of Associated Press, reports on how US missionary agencies are grappling with the idea of COVID-19 vaccine mandates...

Feared and forgotten: Congo's Ebola orphans work to survive

Feared and forgotten: Congo's Ebola orphans work to survive

KAHINDO SIFA BAHATI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been driven to work amid trauma, discrimination and fear around the disease...

Peer education: A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust understanding

Peer education: A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust understanding

YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from Columbia in South Carolina on the opening of North America’s first permanent Anne Frank Center...

Automating access: Vending machines bring safe, cheap water to Nairobi slums

Automating access: Vending machines bring safe, cheap water to Nairobi slums

DOMINIC KIRUI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how an initiative to install water-dispensing vending machines to ease the water access crisis in city slums...

On campus outreach: Australian evangelical groups grapple with the ups and downs of student ministry during COVID-19

On campus outreach: Australian evangelical groups grapple with the ups and downs of student ministry during COVID-19

PETA MCCARTNEY reports on how evangelical ministries at Australian universities have weathered the COVID-19 storm...

The Statistic

17th September, 2021
Number of people who may have be forced to move from their homes as a result of climate change by 2050 unless concrete climate and development action is taken now: More than 216 million
Source: World Bank's Groundswell report

 

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Moments

17th September, 2021
DENOUNCED: By China and France, the agreement of a new Indo-Pacific security alliance between the US, UK and Australia under which Australia will acquire nuclear powered submarines; China warned of an intensified arms race in the region while France, which lost its own submarine deal with Australia, called the plans brutal and unpredictable.
CHARGED: Two men with the 2019 murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry, according to police in Northern Ireland; they are due in court on Friday.
FILED: Armenia, a case at the World Court asserting that Azerbaijan has violated an international treaty on racial discrimination.

 

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Space scholar WENDY WHITMAN COBB, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the latest move in the race to space tourism...

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In an article published on Religion News Service, JIM WALLIS says the US must not be distracted from "the deep reflection about our values now required in the aftermath of the United States' longest war"...

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US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE reflects, in an article published on Religion News Service, on Pope Francis' call this week to stand up for the marginalised...

They Said It

"The Mission has reasonable grounds to believe that judges and prosecutors in the cases examined have denied, as opposed to guaranteed, some rights to real or perceived government opponents, in response to interference from political actors or from within the judicial or prosecutorial hierarchy."
- From a report by a group of UN investigators which found Venezuela's judicial system has perpetuated human rights violations as part of a state policy to quash opposition to the government of President Nicolas Maduro (as quoted on Reuters).

 

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This Week on the Web

17th September, 2021
US Christian author Rebekah Lyons spoke to Relevent about her new book, A Surrendered Yes. Read the interview here...

 

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The Word Explained

13th September, 2021
Golden rule: a) The essential principle relevant to a particular situation.
                     b) The Great Commandment, which is the heart of Christianity.

 

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Wow!: Pollution to products? Recycled carbon emissions are coming to consumer shelves

Wow!: Pollution to products? Recycled carbon emissions are coming to consumer shelves

CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a new process uses captured carbon to create "green chemicals" which is already being used to make everything from detergent to clothing...

Lifestory: For New York celebrity priest, 9/11 closure will come with tolerance for

Lifestory: For New York celebrity priest, 9/11 closure will come with tolerance for "every path to God"

RENÉE RODEN, of Religion News Service, speaks with Monsignor Jim Lisante...

StrangeSights: Cat sounds, cinema smells and the purpose of beards - this year's Ig Nobel winners; a marzipan Merkel; and, ugly tomatoes...

StrangeSights: Cat sounds, cinema smells and the purpose of beards - this year's Ig Nobel winners; a marzipan Merkel; and, ugly tomatoes...

DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life...

Postcards: As nature shifts, climate change forces rewrite of US conservation strategy

Postcards: As nature shifts, climate change forces rewrite of US conservation strategy

CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as a warming planet alters natural systems, traditional practices of conserving parks and wildlife refuges are being forced to shift as well...

This Life: When we need to rely on God's map

This Life: When we need to rely on God's map

SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about the importance of trusting God to navigate through the sometimes difficult terrain of life...

Wow!: South Africa's first Black free dive instructor turns tide on apartheid history

Wow!: South Africa's first Black free dive instructor turns tide on apartheid history

WENDELL ROELF, of Reuters, reports frome Cape Town on Zandile Ndlovu's breakthrough role...

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