In the US, Kanye West says he’ll bring ‘Sunday Service’ to Coachella for Easter
Los Angeles, USRNS Since the beginning of this year, Kanye West has been hosting a mysterious variety show of celebrity performances featuring both new and old music, complete with a Gospel choir, that he calls “Sunday Service”. Last week the Chicago rapper and husband of Kim Kardashian West announced that on Easter Sunday, West will […]
Dutch adventurer finishes three-year electric car journey in Australia
Reuters Top: Dutch adventurer Wiebe Wakker outside the Burj Al Arab hotel on his electric car journey from the Netherlands to Australia, in Dubai, UAE December, 2016, in this picture obtained from social media; Below – At the finish line in Sydney on 7th April. ALL PICTURES: WIEBE WAKKER/PLUG ME IN PROJECT/via REUTERS As Wiebe […]
German military to appoint Jewish chaplains and open forces to Muslim imams, too
RNS Germany’s armed forces will soon appoint Jewish chaplains, almost 100 years after rabbis last served with the country’s military. The forces will also welcome imams into their ranks to minister to Muslim troops. After the Nazi era and the Holocaust, the few Jewish males born in postwar Germany were exempted from military service. Since […]
Rising number of businesses cut ties with Brunei over gay sex death penalty
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Travel agents, London’s transport network and finance houses were among a rising number of companies on Friday to cut ties with businesses owned by Brunei to protest over the Sultanate’s introduction of the death penalty for gay sex and adultery. The small Muslim-majority former British protectorate on 3rd April rolled out further […]
Georgians uprooted by war stage four-day protest to demand new homes
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Dozens of Georgian families occupied a tower block last week in a protest activists said highlighted widespread frustration among people still waiting to be rehoused more than a decade after war drove them from their homes. More than 280,000 Georgians were uprooted by conflicts in the early 1990s in the rebel […]
RWANDAN GENOCIDE: SURVIVORS TORMENTED BY HORRORS, 25 YEARS ON
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Rwanda…
In the UK, church car wash app uncovers nearly 1,000 suspected cases of modern slavery
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation British drivers uncovered almost 1,000 potential cases of modern slavery at car washes in five months using the “Safe Car Wash App” yet less than a fifth called the anti-slavery helpline to report their concerns, the creators of the app said on Sunday. The free mobile-phone app was launched by the Church […]
ESSAY: OH, MY RWANDA
With the 25th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide being commemorated this week, Dr JOHN STEWARD, who worked as a peace and reconciliation consultant in the country in its aftermath, reflects on the progress made there since…
THIS LIFE: ARE YOU WAITING ON GOD?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about the frustrations – and benefits – of waiting on God…
In Catholic-owned rooming house in the US city of Boston, older tenants face displacement
Boston, USRNS Residents of a Boston rooming house run by an order of Catholic nuns earned a short-term victory last week when the owners agreed to suspend eviction proceedings against the few older women left in the building, pending a state inquiry into allegations of age discrimination. For more than 60 years, the Our Lady’s […]