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Homeless Muppet finds her place on Sesame Street
Thomson Reuters Foundation In a sign of the times, US children’s show Sesame Street has a new resident: seven-year-old Lily, a homeless, pink puppet. The newest member, Lily, joins yellow Big Bird and duo Bert and Ernie to offer hope to the growing number of children worldwide who lack a permanent home, said the Sesame […]
Pakistan joins US list of worst religious freedom violators
World Watch Monitor Pakistan is among the 10 countries that appear on the US State Department’s latest list of Countries of Particular Concern for religious-freedom violations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in a press statement on Tuesday. China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are accused of “having engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, [and] egregious violations of religious freedom”. […]
Failure to slow climate change threatens ‘every country’, UN talks told
Thomson Reuters Foundation Decades of efforts to curb climate-changing emissions are failing, leaving not just small islands but “every country” at this year’s UN climate talks facing the threat of disaster, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed warned on Thursday. “Carbon emissions keep rising and rising and rising, and all we seem to be doing is […]
POSTCARDS: ROHINGYA REFUGEE CHILDREN’S CAMPAIGN FOR PROTECTION FROM VIOLENCE
A photo essay special from World Vision Australia looks at how Rohingya children in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, are involved in a campaign to have their rights to safety and protection recognised…
MUSIC ON FILM: THE CHRISTIAN SINGER AND THE VOICE BEHIND ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’
HEIDI HALL, of Religion News Service, speaks to Canadian Christian performer Marc Martel, whose voice played a star role in recent Queen tribute film, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’…
Australian Christian Lobby welcomes Federal Government moves on religious freedom but says proposed reforms don’t go far enough
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement it would move to introduce a Religious Discrimination Act but said more need to be done to protect religious freedom. Martyn Iles, managing director of the ACL, said in a statement that the “efficacy” of the proposed Religious Discrimination Act would “depend on whether the expression of traditional […]
ESSAY: THIS CHRISTMAS TELL YOUR CHILDREN THE REAL SANTA CLAUS STORY
In an article first published on The Conversation, LISA BITEL, a US-based historian and religions, looks at the story behind Santa Claus…