POSTCARDS: KYRGYZSTAN’S KIDNAPPED BRIDES USE FASHION AND FLAGS TO END MARRIAGE TABOO
ADELA SULIMAN reports from Central Asia…
Native American man from viral video offers to meet with Catholic students, leaders
RNS Nathan Philips, a Native American man seen in a viral video of an encounter with a group of Kentucky Catholic school students, says he wants to meet with them and church officials to discuss the incident and turn it into a “teachable moment”. “Let’s create space for the teaching of tolerance to happen,” Phillips, an […]
Red Cross sounds alarm over use of ‘killer robots’ in future wars
Thomson Reuters Foundation Countries must agree strict rules on “killer robots” – autonomous weapons which can assassinate without human involvement, a top Red Cross official has said, amid growing ethical concerns over their use in future wars. Semi-autonomous weapons systems from drones to tanks have for decades been used to eliminate targets in modern day […]
As Europe tightens its borders, migrants’ health at risk – WHO report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Language barriers and fears of deportation are preventing asylum seekers and migrants accessing medical care in Europe, with some governments denying them treatment altogether, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Discrimination, lack of local knowledge or finance has also kept migrants without legal status from getting basic medical care in Europe, […]
Quick Facts – Hundreds of migrants drown trying to reach Europe
Thomson Reuters Foundation The number of migrants drowned while trying to reach Europe this year has hit 200, according to migration charities, after two dinghies sank trying cross the Mediterranean. Migrants from the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia, fleeing poverty and conflicts, have tried for years to cross the Mediterranean to reach the […]
Facing torture, death in Sudan, convert flees to Egypt – and more death threats
Morning Star News Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian now faces death threats in Egypt. Unknown Muslims in Cairo began threatening him for his faith in Christ last year, 40-year-old Al Hadi Izzalden Shareef Osman said. Cairo, Egypt where Al Hadi […]
AUTHENTICITY
There have been many shifts in society in the past generation. These shifts affect how we understand God. One shift has been away from propriety to authenticity. PICTURE: Helena Lopes/Unsplash Propriety values correctness, order, decorum and respectability. In this kind of church, people expect things to be done right, in order, with reverence. This is good; […]
CHILD MARRIAGE: WEDDED TO DEBT – FATHERS OF UNDERAGE INDIAN BRIDES TRAPPED IN BONDAGE
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the links between child marriage and debt bondage in India…
UN raps nations for ignoring victims trafficked at home
Thomson Reuters Foundation Countries are ignoring the growing number of people trafficked within their own borders, focusing instead on the international trade in human beings, a top United Nations official said. UN special rapporteur Maria Grazia Giammarinaro said children were also increasingly vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers, be it for sex, begging or even their […]
ESSAY: HOW CAN ONE PERSON TAKE US CLOSER TO RACIAL JUSTICE? THESE THREE BYWORDS WILL HELP
In an excerpt from his latest book, ‘The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism’, JEMAR TISBY says Christians must take “courageous and urgent action to correct historic wrongs and their ongoing ramifications” when it comes to racial justice…