SNAPSHOT: MONUMENT VALLEY, UNITED STATES
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UK watchdog to move faster when charities accused of wrongdoing
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s charity watchdog vowed on Thursday to move faster when charities are accused of wrongdoing, following a year in which sex abuse scandals have rocked the sector. The Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales, said tackling poor practice and improving public trust – which has hit its lowest level […]
US pastor and activist William J Barber II wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
RNS Rev William J Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina and leader of the resurgent Poor People’s Campaign, has won a MacArthur “genius” award. Barber, 55, pastor of Goldsboro, North Carolina’s Greenleaf Christian Church and former president of the state’s NAACP chapter, has long been viewed as a rising star […]
US preacher plumbs the art of the sermon by yielding the pulpit to passers-by
Grand Rapids, MichiganRNS A pulpit is often regarded as a sacred and in many ways exclusive space. Most religions allow only the ordained to speak to congregants from this place. Ordinary voices seldom have access to the power of the pulpit. Steve Norman wants to change that. Steve Norman, seated, created ‘The Preachers’ art exhibit for […]
US CHURCHES: HOUSES OF WORSHIP IN HURRICANE FLORENCE’S PATH LOOK TO FEMA FOR A HELPING HAND
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on how a change of Federal Government policy in the US has led churches to look to official assistance in the wake of Hurricane Florence…
Leah Sharibu’s mother pleads with Nigerian president as kidnappers threaten to kill daughter
World Watch Monitor The mother of the Christian girl detained by Boko Haram for over seven months has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to secure her daughter’s release. Leah Sharibu, 15, was one of 110 girls kidnapped on 19th February, 2018, from a school in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Dapchi, in Yobe state. Leah […]
ESSAY: ‘THE TRUMP PROPHECY’ INCLUDES TROUBLING PARALLELS FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOEL BADEN, a professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, takes a look at claims in the new film ‘The Trump Prophecy’, that the US President is the “King Cyrus of our times”…
WOW!: GREEN AND INCLUSIVE? PARIS BUILDS A ZERO-CARBON FUTURE WITH A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
ZOE TABARY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a former industrial wasteland in Paris has been transformed into an “eco-neighbourhood” and a model for sustainable development…
Indian campaigner wins award for helping women facing violence
Thomson Reuters Foundation An Indian campaigner supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India was named on Thursday as one of two winners of an annual award recognising female human rights workers. Binalakshmi Nepram shared the Reach All Women in WAR (RAW in WAR) Anna Politkovskaya Award with Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, an investigative […]