Kenya to add chaplains to public high schools to improve discipline
RNS Religious leaders in Kenya have welcomed a government move to recruit chaplains for all public high schools as a measure intended to improve discipline and staunch unrest. The leaders say such a move would help promote good morals. Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i’s announcement that the government was prepared to fund the chaplaincies was […]
Churches’ body hails treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons as an “historic achievement”
In what churches have hailed as an “historic achievement”, more than 120 of the world’s governments have adopted a treaty which declares nuclear weapons illegal. Some 122 governments agreed to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last Friday despite a boycott by the nine countries with nuclear weapons and other nations during […]