Venezuela’s crisis boosts trafficking risk for women, children – experts
Thomson Reuters Foundation Migrant women and children fleeing Venezuela’s economic collapse are at heightened risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking on their journeys seeking refuge across South America, aid agencies said on Wednesday. More than 1.6 million Venezuelans have abandoned the oil-rich nation since 2015 to seek better lives in neighbouring Colombia and across the […]
The TCM Update – Skillet to tour Australia for first time since 2011
US band Skillet Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
ON THE SCREEN: ‘CRAZY RICH ASIANS’ BREAKS NEW GROUND
MARCUS CHEONG watches ‘Crazy Rich Asians’…
Quick facts – Five deadliest hurricanes as toll from Hurricane Maria raised
Thomson Reuters Foundation Puerto Rico has this week raised the official death toll from Hurricane Maria to nearly 3,000 following a study ordered by the governor of the US territory. The report found an estimated 2,975 deaths could be attributed directly or indirectly to Maria, the most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean island in […]
Sixty per cent of Australians unaware refugee children detained on Nauru, poll finds
Six out of 10 Australians are unaware that refugee children are being detained on Nauru, according to a new poll. The poll was commissioned by World Vision Australia which is among a coalition of humanitarian and refugee advocacy groups which recently launched a campaign, #KidsOffNauru, to have the more than 110 children on the island […]
US: WHITE HOUSE HOSTS DINNER TO HONOUR EVANGELICALS “FOR ALL THE GOOD WORK THEY DO”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on this week’s White House gathering of US evangelicals…
Anti-Putin punk group Pussy Riot headlines UK Christian music festival
RNS From its shock-effect name to its defiant activist tactics, little about the Russian band Pussy Riot would suggest that the punk group is on a holy mission. But after an appearance last weekend at Greenbelt, the UK’s foremost Christian arts festival, Pussy Riot’s co-founder Maria Alyokhina explained that the act, beginning with the 2012 […]
ESSAY: IS THE ‘CHOCOPOCALYPSE’ LOOMING? WHY WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S AT STAKE
In an article first published on The Conversation, JOVANA STANISLJEVIC, a professor at the Grenoble École de Management in France, looks at what’s really going on behind the headlines when it comes to the world’s appetite for, and production of, chocolate…
Nigerian church leaders, families continue to die; US top diplomat blames ‘climate of impunity’
World Watch Monitor The acting US ambassador to Nigeria has reiterated the call of his government to the Nigerian authorities to stop ongoing killings in the Middle Belt, and the north-east of the country. Violence attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen reached a record high this year with more than 1800 deaths from January to June, […]