UK threatens action against 1,500 firms over silence on gender pay gap
Thomson Reuters Foundation About 1,500 large British companies that failed to meet a government deadline to report the pay gap between male and female employees could face legal action, Britain’s equality watchdog said on Thursday. A law introduced last year requires companies and charities with more than 250 workers – covering almost half of Britain’s […]
AFRICA: FIVE YEARS ON, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CRISIS DEEPENS
ILLIA DJADI reports for the World Watch Monitor on the ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic…
Indian Christians charged with ‘hurting religious sentiments’ by handing out Easter tracts
World Watch Monitor Four Christians, including the wife of a church leader, have been charged with “hurting religious sentiments” after they handed out Christian tracts during an Easter procession in India’s southern Telangana state. Rayapuri Jyothi, 38, Meena Kumari, 52, Mahima Kumari, 35 and Bagadam Sudhakar, 45, were taken into custody by police in the […]
ESSAY: KING IN MONTGOMERY – A WHITE SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTER REFLECTS
Southern Baptist Convention minister ALAN CROSS reflects on how things have changed in the years since Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, pastored a church in Montgomery – and how much still needs to change…
OPEN BOOK: II THESSALONIANS – THE HARVEST TO BECOME HARVESTERS
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at chapter 2 of II Thessalonians…
Vietnam jails Christian rights defender for 15 years
World Watch Monitor Christian human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years on Thursday for activities “aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration”, as Reuters reported. His wife, Vu Minh Khanh, said she was “very disappointed” but that Dai will “continue to fight and will appeal the verdict”. Five other activists were given prison sentences […]