SIGHT-SEEING: THE TIME GOD SPOKE
In an excerpt from his new book, Marked by Love, US pastor and author TIM STEVENS looks at what God said, when, in the early pages of the Gospel of Matthew, He spoke for the first time in 400 years…
In the US, with Cardinal Wuerl stepping down, who’s next?
RNS The buzz about the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who heads the archdiocese of Washington, DC, and whose resignation the Pope accepted on Friday, had a lot to do with his position: technically, as some outlets pointed out, Wuerl is the most highly ranked member of the American Catholic hierarchy to lose his office […]
Indian state wins prize for showing 100 per cent organic “no longer a pipe dream”
Thomson Reuters Foundation India’s first fully organic state won top prize in a UN-backed award on Friday, with organisers saying its policies had helped more than 66,000 farmers, boosted tourism and set an example to other countries. The small Himalayan state of Sikkim on India’s border with Tibet was declared fully organic in 2016 after […]
Brazil’s fashion brands score poorly in first supply chain slavery index
Thomson Reuters Foundation The 20 biggest fashion retailers in Brazil – where slave labour is a major problem – scored poorly on an index assessing their social and environmental practices, with almost half failing to disclose any information, UK-based campaigners said last week. Brazilian retailers scored an average of 17 per cent in Fashion Revolution‘s […]