Updated: Australia goes to the polls on 18th May with taxes, climate change as major issues
Updated: 10amSydney, AustraliaReuters Australians will go to the polls in a general election on 18th May, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, firing the starting gun on a campaign expected to be fought over taxation, climate change and inequality. Morrison led his confident pitch to voters with his economic credentials, but his conservative coalition […]
Global aid spending drops as refugee flows decrease – OECD
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation As global refugee flows fell last year, so did aid from rich countries, official data showed on Wednesday, tumbling for the second consecutive year, and hindering efforts to end poverty. Major donors spent $US149.3 billion on aid in 2018, a decrease of 2.7 per cent compared to the year before, according to preliminary […]
Archbishop of Canterbury launches Church of England commission into housing crisis
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has this week launched a major new Church of England inquiry into England’s housing crisis. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Housing, Church and Community will see academics, housing experts and theologians meet over an 18 month period and examine how the church can build on its own work […]
STRANGESIGHTS: GoT WAR CRIMINALS; CHEESY PIZZAS AND A GIANT EASTER EGG; AND, WHICH MATTHEW MACKAY?
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
NASA turns its focus to Earth with aid partnership
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation NASA is using its satellites to solve humanitarian challenges in some of the most fragile places on earth under a landmark partnership with aid agency Mercy Corps. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration will use its wealth of data to help communities at risk from climate change and natural disasters predict […]
UN refugee chief warns New Zealand massacre the result of toxic politics, media
New York City, USReuters United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi warned on Tuesday that a deadly attack on two New Zealand mosques was the result of the worst toxicity in politics and media towards refugees, migrants and foreigners that he had witnessed in more than 30 years. In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: “THE STAKES ARE TOO HIGH”- CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL IN THE UK TAKE UP PROTEST
SHANNON LARSON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from London…
After “challenging times”, US Moody Bible Institute inaugurates new president
Chicago, USRNS Sara Nimori, president of the student government at Moody Bible Institute, said students were shocked and saddened last year to hear that the school’s president had resigned. J Paul Nyquist, its former president, had worked to make the evangelical Christian school a welcoming place for a diverse student body. Moody Bible Institute trustees gather to […]
ESSAY: IT’S NORMAN VINCENT PEALE’S AMERICA
Author STEPHEN MANSFIELD, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the influence of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ author in the US today…
WOW!: GREEN MACHINES? FLYING TAXIS COULD SLASH EMISSIONS FOR LONG JOURNEYS
SONIA ELKS, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes flying taxis could help provide a more sustainable future…