UK anti-slavery hotline uncovers almost 5,000 potential victims in first year
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s modern slavery helpline received thousands of calls in its first full year and identified nearly 5,000 potential victims being exploited in car washes, construction sites, nail bars and brothels, an anti-trafficking charity said on Monday. Unseen, which runs the hotline, said the 3,710 calls from the public and from victims last […]
US says there is ‘no evidence’ Pastor Brunson guilty of any crime
Just days before jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson is to stand trial accused of espionage and terrorism against Turkey, a senior US official in Ankara declared last week that months of strained relations between Ankara and Washington have “started going to a positive direction…amid accelerated cooperation.” The optimistic comments on 12th April follow months of steadily worsening […]
US entrepreneur wins award for making government ‘less insulting’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Jennifer Pahlka believes that coding can help deliver a better US Government that works to help reformed felons earn an honest living and public servants frustrated by poor technology. After seeing the challenges working in child welfare, she founded San Francisco-based non profit Code for America in 2009 to create user-friendly websites that make […]
THE INTERVIEW: FORMER US PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK, ‘FAITH’
Former US President – and high profile Christian – Jimmy Carter talks to ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, about his latest book, Faith…
Thousands grapple to secure homes as England housing crisis bites
Thomson Reuters Foundation More than 100,000 households in England could be living in bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels by 2020 due to a critical housing shortage, a study showed on Thursday. The report by charity group Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said current trends indicated the crisis would get worse as local councils battled to […]
ESSAY: WHY OUR DECLINING BIBLICAL LITERACY MATTERS
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian academic MEREDITH LAKE, of the University of Sydney, argues that, even putting matters of faith aside, a working knowledge of the Bible and a “critical skill” in interpreting remain extremely useful…
THIS LIFE: THE PARADOX OF GENEROSITY
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, writes about what it means to be generous…
Open Doors calls on Commonwealth heads to put religious freedom at “heart” of discussions
Persecuted church support and advocacy organisation Open Doors UK has called on the Commonwealth heads of government to put freedom of religion and belief at the “heart of their discussions” when they meet this week. The organisation points out that eight of the 53 Commonwealth nations appear on its latest World Watch List – which ranks […]