No religious minority representative on Pakistan PM’s new cabinet
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing criticism after failing to appoint a single member of a religious minority group onto his cabinet. “As an offence to many, the new team doesn’t include a single member from the minority groups in the country as neither a Hindu, Christian or a Parsi […]
Foreign students recruited as au pairs face abuse in US, says report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Young women recruited to the United States to care for children fall victim to wage theft, abuse and even human trafficking, according to a report published on Monday that called for legal changes to help protect au pairs. International au pairs – most of them young women – work under a US […]
STRANGESIGHTS: THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CHESS PIECE; THREE-YEAR-OLD AIMS FOR WORLD RECORD; AND, BURGLAR ASKS FOR PRAYER…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Korean reunification would not resemble German experience, says theologian
World Watch Monitor The reunification of North and South Korea would not be similar to that of East and West Germany, according to a German theologian. “The division between North and South Korea is already of much longer duration than the German division, and it goes much deeper. In the beginning there was a cruel […]
A pocket watch turns back the clock on Jewish life aboard the Titanic
RNS Sinai Kantor, a Russian immigrant bound for New York with his wife, Miriam, took with him a Swiss-made pocket watch embossed on the back with a seated Moses holding the Hebrew-inscribed Ten Commandments. The timepiece, a symbol of Kantor’s Jewish faith, survived. Kantor did not. He was among 1,503 passengers who died on the […]
KENYA: “PUT UP AND SHUT UP” – POLYGAMY BREEDS POVERTY FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Global food waste could rise by a third by 2030, says study
Thomson Reuters Foundation Food waste could rise by almost a third by 2030 when more than two billion tonnes will be binned, researchers said on Tuesday, warning of a “staggering” crisis propelled by a booming world population and changing habits in developing nations. The United Nations has set a target of halving food loss and […]
ESSAY: FOUR THINGS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST DO TO RESPOND TO SEX ABUSE
US Catholic Church commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how the Catholic Church in the US should respond to the sex abuse crisis it’s facing…
SIGHT-SEEING: THE REASONS WHY CHRISTIANS HAVE LOST CREDIBILITY IN TODAY’S CULTURE
In an article first published on ASSIST News Service, PHIL COOKE and JONATHAN BOCK, authors of ‘The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back’, look at eight ways Christians can start to change culture…
Catholics seek encouragement as World Meeting of Families opens in Dublin
Dublin, IrelandRNS As 750,000 Catholics gather in Dublin for the start of the World Meeting of Families, the week is shaping up to bring an intense mix of joy, learning and even some sadness as the long shadow of the clergy sexual abuse crisis proves inescapable. On the agenda of the triennial event, which began […]