In Australia, inclusion and religion face off in Folau hearing
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Israel Folau’s fight to save his Wallabies career will come to a head at a code of conduct hearing on Saturday, a trial cast as a clash between religious freedom and an organisation’s moral commitment to ensure an inclusive working environment. A three-member panel will weigh whether Folau, a fundamentalist Christian, breached Rugby […]
Churches in Sri Lankan capital cancel Sunday mass due to threat
Colombo, Sir LankaReuters Sri Lanka’s Catholic churches have cancelled Sunday mass in the capital Colombo for a second straight week, citing foreign intelligence warnings of threats to worshippers in the wake of the deadly Easter bombings on churches and hotels. Sri Lankan security forces have said they were maintaining a high level of alert as […]
Central American farmers suffer major crop losses, need food aid – UN
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation More than one million people across Central America need food aid after droughts combined with heavy rains in the past year destroyed harvests, the United Nations said on Thursday. Subsistence farmers along the so-called ‘Dry Corridor’ that runs through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua lost more than half of their […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Former Delirious? frontman Martin Smith releases first solo studio album
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TRENDSPOTTER: ON SCREEN GO SLOW
DAVID ADAMS looks at how slow TV – and its cinematic counterpart – are increasingly making an impact in the mainstream…
US House backs Paris agreement in first climate bill in a decade
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed its first climate change bill in a decade, voting 231-190 to require that Trump administration keep the United States as a party to the Paris climate agreement. The Climate Action Now Act would require President Donald Trump to develop a plan for the United States to meet […]
Nearly 500 US churches face climate-linked flooding threat, scientists say
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 500 US churches built in low-lying coastal areas are in danger of flooding at least once a year by 2050 should seas continue rising amid unchecked climate change, scientists said Thursday. States with the highest levels of church attendance – including Louisiana and North Carolina – figure among […]
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘DON’T LET CHRISTIANS PUT YOU OFF JESUS’
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US EVANGELICALS: “WHO’S DOING CHRISTIANITY RIGHT?” HOW THE VICE PRESIDENT’S UPCOMING VISIT TO TAYLOR UNIVERSITY IS HIGHLIGHTING DIVIDES
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on why an invitation for US Vice President Mike Pence to deliver a commencement address at Taylor University has exposed rifts among Christian students…
BEYOND RATIONS: FOOD AID STRUGGLES TO ADAPT TO MODERN CRISES
NELLIE PEYTON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how humanitarian agencies are grappling with long term food crises around the world today…