India aims to give 500,000 trafficking survivors vocational training
Thomson Reuters Foundation India will offer vocational training to almost half a million survivors of human trafficking under a programme launched this week by President Ram Nath Kovind. The three-month course will evaluate the educational levels of those rescued from slavery, and build their confidence, according to Justice and Care, the Indian anti-trafficking charity that […]
SNAPSHOT: PYRAMIDS, EGYPT
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As more Christians are killed in Somalia, number of orphans grows
Morning Star News Orphans in Somalia whose parents were killed for their faith by Islamic extremist al-Shabaab rebels are becoming more numerous – and hungrier, an underground church leader said. The pastor started a care centre for the orphans three years ago in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as more children of secret Christians were orphaned. […]
First-ever peacebuilding platform for Arab Christian and Muslim leaders
World Watch Monitor More than 200 leaders from the Arab region have met to commit to peacebuilding and repairing the divisions created by extremists. The ‘Interreligious Dialogue for Peace: Promoting Peaceful Coexistence and Common Citizenship’ conference, organised by the Vienna-based International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), was the first of its kind for Christian and Muslim leaders […]
Victoria and NSW first Australian states to commit to national redress scheme for child abuse victims
Victoria and New South Wales are the first Australian states to commit to a national redress scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced. The move comes in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and covers about 9,000 people who were abused in […]
ESSAY: WHO WAS MARY MAGDALENE? DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF THE PENITENT PROSTITUTE
With the new film Mary Magdalene to be released in Australia later this month, in an article first published on The Conversation, Australian academic DOROTHY ANN LEE, Frank Woods Professor of New Testament of Trinity College at the University of Divinity, takes a look at the Biblical character…
RIGHT TO LIFE: NEW LIGHT OF THE US ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT – AN ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
HEATHER ADAMS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how Karen Gaffney has become a leading light in the anti-abortion movement in the US…
Amid sex scandals and #MeToo, women aid workers warn against ‘culture of silence’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women working as humanitarian workers across 80 countries have called for major reforms in the industry as a sex scandal centred on British charity Oxfam rocks the aid sector. An open letter penned by four female aid workers attracted more than 1,000 signatures from other women in the sector, from Britain and […]