Global hunger rises for first time in decade – UN agencies
Thomson Reuters Foundation Global hunger levels have risen for the first time in more than a decade, now affecting 11 per cent of the world’s population, as conflict, climate change and economic woes bite, UN agencies said on Friday. Last year, 815 million people were hungry – 38 million more than in 2015 – the […]
SNAPSHOT: ‘FRUITAGE’, BRAZIL
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Turkey and Italy most anti-immigration while Britain positive, poll says
Thomson Reuters Foundation The frontline states of Europe’s migrant crisis, Turkey and Italy, are most worried about immigration, according to a global survey released Thursday, while Britain has become much less concerned. Nearly three in five Turks and Italians surveyed said immigration had a negative impact on their country, with an even higher percentage saying […]
Chainsaw-wielding nun just ‘wanted to help out’ after Hurricane Irma
RNS Now here’s something you don’t see every day: A Carmelite nun, in full habit, cutting trees with a chainsaw. Sister Margaret Ann, principal of Miami’s Archbishop Coleman F Carroll High School, caught the attention of an off-duty police officer, who posted photos and video of her at work on the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Facebook […]
RELEASED: FR TOM UZHUNNALIL – JESUS WAS WITH ME EVERY DAY I WAS HELD CAPTIVE
There were celebrations this week when Indian Roman Catholic priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil was released after 18 months captivity in Yemen. World Watch Monitor reports on his subsequent meeting with Pope Francis and looks at the background to the case…
OPEN BOOK – HINTS FROM THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS: ALL ARE SAFE; NONE ESCAPE
BRUCE C WEARNE, in his series on Acts, looks at events surrounding what happened the ship Paul was on was wrecked…