Australian rugby player Samu Kerevi says under “no pressure” over faith despite Folau row
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Wallabies back Samu Kerevi said he felt under no pressure to keep quiet about his Christian faith as he moved to ease fears of a revolt by players with Pacific Island heritage over the Israel Folau affair on Thursday. Folau looks set to have his Rugby Australia contract torn up after Saturday’s code […]
Do ‘mechanical trees’ offer the cure for climate change?
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation A Dublin-based company plans to erect “mechanical trees” in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide from the air, it said this week, in what may prove to be biggest effort to remove the gas blamed for climate change from the atmosphere. The company, Silicon Kingdom Holdings, will […]
Sydneysiders find their happy place catching a wave on ‘Fluoro Friday’
Sydney, AustraliaReuters The sun is rising over Sydney’s Bondi Beach and surfer Grant Trebilco, clad in a colourful striped long-sleeved shirt and bright yellow shorts with black polka dots, has just caught his first wave. Whether he catches one wave or a hundred, this salt water therapy, as Trebilco calls it, is where he finds […]
“Look for the laggards” – investors told to target modern slavery
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Big investors must look beyond the clamour over climate change and compel companies to tackle modern slavery as well, the head of a United Nations-backed group pushing for responsible investment said on Wednesday. Fund managers can put trillions of dollars worth of pressure on businesses that fail to stop slave labour by […]
FINANCES: STUDY FINDS CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR CHURCH TAXES IN WESTERN EUROPE
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports on the findings of a new Pew study looking at attitudes towards church taxes…
Decades-old fight for women’s equal rights goes before US lawmakers
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation A proposed constitutional amendment to guarantee equal rights for women on Tuesday got its first hearing in nearly four decades in the US Congress, where leaders said the measure could win approval amid “a groundswell” of activism among women. The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972 […]
ESSAY: FROM PARIS TO BOSTON, THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF FIRE CHAPLAINS
In an article first published on The Conversation, WENDY CADGE and MICHAEL SKAGGS, both of Brandeis University, look at the work of fire chaplains…
POSTCARDS: IN PARCHED SOUTH AFRICA, WATER STORING FOOTBALL FIELDS GIVE DROUGHT THE BOOT
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa…
Anti-Muslim hate in the US is driven by politics, not faith – and it’s preventable, study suggests
RNS Americans who personally know a Muslim are more than twice as likely to have a favorable opinion toward Muslims than those who do not, according to a new report. But researchers say that anti-Muslim attitudes is influenced by a host of factors, from personal and national politics to how much a person knows about […]