PROTEST: URGED BY THEIR YOUTH, FAITH GROUPS FLOCK TO MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how Christians and people of other faiths were among those who attended the mass protest against gun violence in the US last weekend…
Lao Government agrees to religious freedom education
World Watch Monitor The government in the South-East Asian nation of Laos has agreed to sponsor religious-freedom education in the country. The US-based Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) will roll out a series of seminars focusing on “religious freedom as a human right, Lao government policy on religious activity and encouraging dialogue between religious and […]
Island of plastic debris in Pacific far bigger than previous estimates, study says
Thomson Reuters Foundation A giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean holds as much as 16 times more debris than was previously thought, posing a significant threat to the food chain, scientists said last last week. The so-called garbage patch in waters between California and Hawaii consists of fishing nets, plastic containers, packaging […]
‘Vietnam targeting religious followers, whose sole wish is to live their faith in peace’
World Watch Monitor The Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has expressed “deep concern” over an attack earlier this month on 24 Christians from the Hmong people group, who had recently converted to the Christian faith. The group had been warned by local leaders to renounce their faith or be forced to leave the village. The attack, led […]
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