POSTCARDS: MONASTERY AS A MEETING BETWEEN HUMAN AND DIVINE
In a photo essay first published by the World Council of Churches, IVARS KUPCIS takes a look inside the Russian Orthodox Sretensky monastery in Moscow…
Protest to be held a year after Leah Sharibu kidnapped from a Nigerian school
UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW will lead a protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on 19th February, marking a year since schoolgirl Leah Sharibu was abducted from her highschool in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram. Some 110 girls were taken from the school but while all of her classmates were released the […]
Christian in Sri Lanka arrested after reporting threat on his life, watchdog group reports
New Delhi, IndiaMorning Star News Police in Sri Lanka arrested a Christian who reported a Buddhist mob’s threat on his life, according to an advocacy group in the island country. In Nattandiya, in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province, six area Buddhists on 26th January threatened to attack the Christian if he refused to stop inviting […]
Flies and fungi – climate change could make food less safe, experts warn
Thomson Reuters Foundation As the planet warms, governments must pay more attention to food safety, and address the issue in their action plans to tackle climate change, officials and researchers said last week. Food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals causes more than 600 million people to fall ill and 420,000 to die […]
Sexual violence surges in South Sudan amid culture of “pervasive impunity” – UN report
A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state – targeting victims as young as eight-year-old – has prompted UN calls for the government to protect victims and bring those committing such offences to justice. A joint report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Mission in South Sudan has found that while […]
INFORMATION RIGHTS: LACK OF OWNERSHIP LEAVES EXPERTS PUZZLED ABOUT DATA OWNERSHIP AFTER DEATH
Reporting from the UK, UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the question of who owns your personal data when you die…
ESSAY: WHAT CATHOLICS AND SOUTHERN BAPTISTS CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER ABOUT THE SEX ABUSE CRISIS
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at lessons from sex abuse scandals in the Catholic and now Southern Baptist churches…