Report alleges decades of child sex abuse by Pennsylvania priests, cover-up by bishops
RNS Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro has released a more than 1,300 page grand jury report detailing allegations of widespread sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by Catholic priests in the state, naming hundreds of clerics accused of misconduct over 70 years and accusing church officials of a “systemic” cover-up. Shapiro unveiled the report at a […]
Fight fires with indigenous knowledge, researchers say
Thomson Reuters Foundation Countries at risk of catastrophic wildfires should adopt ancient practices used by indigenous people, researchers said on Monday, after scores of deadly blazes engulfed parts of the northern hemisphere. Wildfires have menaced villages and forests from Greece to the United States this summer, killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands of people. […]
BOOKS: A FASCINATING SURVEY OF THE IMPACT OF THE BIBLE ON AUSTRALIAN LIFE
DAVID ADAMS reads historian Meredith Lake’s ‘The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History’…
UK’s Twinings reveals suppliers amid drive for slave-free Indian tea
Thomson Reuters Foundation UK tea firm Twinings published a list of the Indian plantations it buys from on Monday, citing the need for transparency to improve conditions in an industry experts say is rife with abuse. India’s tea industry, the world’s second largest, employs 3.5 million workers and studies have found many live in appalling […]
Suicide attack on Coptic church foiled in Egypt
World Watch Monitor A suicide attack on a Coptic church in north Cairo, Egypt, was thwarted on Saturday, 12th August, reports Coptic news site Watani. A man wearing a suicide vest detonated the bomb about 250 metres from the Church of the Holy Virgin in the Mostorod district. He was killed instantly, as was a member of the public, […]
Britain pledges to end rough sleeping by 2027
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s government pledged to end rough sleeping in England by 2027 on Monday, a target activists said could only be achieved by investing more in building affordable homes. Homelessness has more than doubled since 2010 in England, where more than 4,100 people now sleep rough, government figures show. On Monday the government […]
BOOKS: JESUS AND THE MARKETPLACE – FORMER US EXEC BRUCE HARTMAN LOOKS AT HOW GOSPEL LESSONS CAN HELP THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
DAVID ADAMS talks to US author and former senior executive Dr Bruce L Hartman, about his new book, ‘Jesus & Co.’…
Museum of the Bible returns medieval manuscript after discovering item’s theft
RNS One year after the Green family – owners of the craft store chain Hobby Lobby and principal sponsors of the Museum of the Bible – agreed to pay a $US3 million fine for illegally importing artifacts from Iraq, the museum is returning a medieval New Testament manuscript to the University of Athens after learning […]
ESSAY: REFUGEES ARE INTEGRATING JUST FINE IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA
In an article first published on The Conversation, Professor JOCK COLLINS, of the University of Technology Sydney, and Professor CAROL REID, of Western Sydney University, report on the findings of a study looking at how newly arrived refugees have settled in Queensland…
GENESIS AND INFORMATION
If you haven’t read Genesis, you are missing out on a huge chunk of our cultural foundation. Why not take a look? God created the universe with words – information, coded data, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Markus Spiske/Unsplash. One of the profound things the book of Genesis tells us, against all other accounts, is that God […]