A week after Pittsburgh shooting, hundreds #ShowUpForShabbat
RNS At 9:52am, they stood in silence in the cavernous sanctuary of Congregation Beth Shalom in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood here, less than a mile from the Tree of Life synagogue, where at 9:52 last Saturday (27th October), a gunman had begun shooting. Then they sat down to continue the litany of prayers and Torah […]
World needs workers’ rights ‘revolution’ to end modern slavery – experts
Thomson Reuters Foundation The world will not end modern-day slavery by focusing on legal action alone and should back a workers’ rights “revolution” to protect people from exploitation and forced labour, lawyers, academics and campaigners have told a conference. Governments regard modern slavery and trafficking mainly as a criminal matter rather than as a human […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘INDIVISIBLE’ AN “UPLIFTING STORY” OF FAITH, LOVE AND WAR
DAVID ADAMS watches ‘Indivisible’, based on the true story of US Army Chaplain Darren Turner…
FAITH ON THE (SMALL) SCREEN: IN THE US, A TV GOD FOR THE AGE OF ANXIETY
CATHLEEN FALSANI, of Religion News Service, looks at whether there’a about to be a “religion renaissance” on the small screen…