LIFESTORY: THE SOUTH SUDANESE SURGEON WHO RECITES SCRIPTURE TO PATIENTS
South Sudanese surgeon Dr Evan Atar Adeha was recently named as the winner of the UNHCR’s 2018 Nansen Award. FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports…
Pakistan’s Supreme Court hears Asia Bibi’s ‘blasphemy’ appeal but delays ruling
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the capital Islamabad has finally heard the much-delayed appeal of Asia Bibi, the first Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy law. It has not announced its decision, saying it will ‘reserve judgment’ for several days or possibly weeks. Aasiya Noreen, a Pakistani Christian woman, has been […]
As world warms, ‘half a degree’ will worsen suffering, scientists say
Thomson Reuters Foundation Many more people – besides the world’s poorest – will face sweltering heatwaves, more extreme rainfall, shrinking harvests and worsening water shortages unless unprecedented efforts to slow climate change start now, scientists warned on Monday. Without stepped-up action, efforts to adapt to the coming changes – from farmers switching crops to cities […]
At least 12 killed in Haiti quake
At least 12 have died and scores more been injured following an earthquake in the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. The magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked the northern part of the country at about 8.10pm Saturday while aftershocks continued into Sunday. The epicentre was reportedly located some 20 kilometres north-west of the city of Port-de-Paix on the […]
Quick facts – Persecution of the Yazidi people
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the so-called Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Murad was 21 in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked the village where she had grown up in northern Iraq. She was taken into captivity by the militants, […]
Christians urged to pray for pastors as US marks National Clergy Appreciation Month
Christians in the US are being encouraged to say thankyou to their pastors and pray for them as part of National Clergy Appreciation Month. Citing statistics which they say shows 75 per cent of pastors report severe stress and that 1,500 pastors reportedly leave their ministries each month due to burnout, conflict or moral failure, […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: CYCLING CITY COPENHAGEN SPRINTS TO BECOME FIRST CARBON NEUTRAL CAPITAL
LIN TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how officials in Copenhagen are behind an ambitious effort to make the Danish city the world’s first carbon-neutral capital city…
After Indonesia quake, empowering coastal communities will save lives: UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation A week after a massive tsunami struck Indonesia, the UN disaster risk agency said on Friday Asia-Pacific governments must do more to empower coastal communities to protect themselves against the threat of earthquakes and tsunamis. On 28th September, a 7.5 magnitude quake and tsunami caused devastation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing more […]