SNAPSHOT: MOUNT ARARAT OVER YEREVAN CITY, ARMENIA
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Singapore’s ‘Mr Toilet’ wants to make sanitation sexy in film
SingaporeThomson Reuters Foundation After travelling the world for more than two decades seeking to improve access to bathrooms, “Mr Toilet” Jack Sim is now ready to plunge into the cinematic world with a film about his unusual campaign. Armed with humour – and sometimes a plunger – the World Toilet Organisation’s founder is the subject […]
Sri Lankans urged to avoid mosques, churches amid fears of more attacks
Updated: 4pmColombo, Sri LankaReuters Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels. Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home on Friday and not […]
Rohingya should move to island to avoid landslides – Bangladesh minister
Dhaka, BangladeshReuters Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk from landslides in the coming monsoon season and should be relocated to a remote island, the country’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday, a move opposed by many refugees. Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly one million Rohingya Muslims sheltered in cramped camps in its […]
CHRISTIAN BOOKS: BOOKMOBILE, GROCERIES AND RELATIONSHIPS HELPS NICHE BOOKSTORE IN US STAY AFLOAT
TRACY SIMMONS reports for Religion News Service on how some niche Christian bookstores in the US are weathering the general downturn in the industry…
Indian state vows to end homelessness with free flats
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation The Indian state of Kerala is offering free flats to homeless people, an ambitious model that activists say other states must follow as a nationwide “Housing for All” plan falls short. The first 145 families moved into their newly constructed flats in a 270-unit complex in Adimali town in southern India […]
More food aid could boost fight against Ebola in Congo, agencies say
Dakar, SenagalThomson Reuters Foundation Giving more food aid in Ebola-struck parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could help stop the spread of the second-biggest outbreak in history, aid agencies said on Wednesday. Food shortages are a long-standing problem in the central African country, where about 13 million people, or 15 per cent of the […]
ESSAY: CENTRAL AMERICAN WOMEN FLEEING VIOLENCE EXPERIENCE MORE TRAUMA AFTER SEEKING ASYLUM
In an article first published on The Conversation, LAURIE C HEFFRON, of St Edward’s University, looks the experiences of women fleeing Central America after they seek asylum in the US…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: PAUL’S GOSPEL AND LIFE, PART I
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at why Paul puts such an emphasis on his own call when writing to the church in Galatia…
Four Christians, including US woman, arrested in Nepal hotel over claims of conversion
Police in Nepal arrested four Christians, including a woman from the US, at a hotel early Tuesday morning on charges of “conversion by allurement”, Morning Star News reports. The US-based news organisation, which covers the persecuted church, reports that police detained the four at their hotel in Ghorahi, about 420 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu, at […]