LIFESTORY: HOW SMALL TOWN CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE OWNERS KEEP THE FAITH DESPITE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Reporting from the US, ELIZABETH EISENSTADT EVANS, of Religion News Service, speaks with Byron and Beth Borger who have run a Christian bookstore in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, since the 1980s, about the challenges and joys or doing so…
UNHCR launches campaign to raise awareness of distances travelled by people escaping persecution
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the huge distances refugees are forced to cover each year as they flee conflicts and persecution. The ‘2 Billion Kilometres to Safety’ campaign calls on people across the globe to join in collectively covering the approximate distance covered by refugees every […]
Britain urged to build millions of social homes after Grenfell
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain needs to build 3.1 million new homes in the next 20 years to solve its housing crisis, a commission set up in the wake of London’s Grenfell Tower disaster said on Tuesday. The fire that killed at least 71 people in a social block in one of London’s most affluent areas […]
Senior UN officials calls for restoration of internet in DRC following December election
A senior UN official has called for authorities to restore internet service in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying that a general network shutdown is a “clear violation of international law and cannot be justified”. Internet and text services were cut following the recent election in the DRC. A government spokesman has reportedly said the […]
PAPER THIN
I read Dietrich Bonheoffer’s biography while staying on a farm. In it I read about the treatment of the Jews in World War II. Later we helped round up the cows and send them to slaughter. The similarities were all too obvious. The Nazis treated people worse than cattle. PICTURE: Ron Dyar/Unsplash. How did this […]
Take teen girls off night shift, Indian factories told
Thomson Reuters Foundation Clothing factories in southern India will have to stop putting teenage girls on night shifts under a new code of conduct that follows complaints of abuse of the largely female workforce. Workers aged 16 to 19 will also be allowed to take time off during their periods and no one will be […]
ESSAY: FACT CHECK – HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ENSLAVED IN THE WORLD TODAY?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MONTI DATTA, of the University of Richmond in the US, surveys the data on slavery…