Conflicts uproot a record 41 million in their own countries
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A record 41.3 million people were uprooted within their own countries last year due to conflicts and violence, data showed on Friday, with two-thirds displaced in just 10 countries including Syria, Colombia and Somalia. The increase in internally displaced people – which was one million higher than in 2017 – suggested that […]
Falling coffee prices mean falling forests – US coffee czar
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Plunging coffee prices may be pressuring farmers to carve out land in rainforests for survival, the head of the US coffee trade body said, urging more help for growers to cope. Their behaviour was even more concerning because felling forests would accelerate climate change and could amplify the volatility […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Verses, Majelen, and a special Andrew Tierney/Dami Im performance…
Andrew Tierney (Human Nature/Finding Faith) performing Good Hands with Dami Im. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
El Salvador gang violence stifles progress on gender killings – top prosecutor
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation A year after El Salvador created a special unit to tackle the country’s high rates of killings of women, gang violence stands in the way of getting convictions, a top prosecutor said. El Salvador, a country of six million people, has one of the world’s highest rates of femicide – the […]
DOCUMENTARY: THE REDEMPTIVE JOURNEY OF KORN’S BRIAN ‘HEAD’ WELCH
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch about the new documentary of his life, ‘Loud Krazy Love’…
Anti-abortion billboards come down in Kenya, but the debate over legalisation continues
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Thirteen billboards with provocative anti-abortion messages have been pulled down, ending a three-month campaign by a local church that divided and scandalized the Kenyan capital. “They have brought down all of them. I am very concerned,” said Apostle Kathy Kageni-Oganga, the pastor of the Sozo Church of God, a Pentecostal church that sponsored the […]
ESSAY: WILL GRACE PREVAIL AS A TENNESSEE EXECUTION LOOMS?
Christian author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE writes about a US death penalty case that’s become very personal to him…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: THE INTEGRITY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, PART I
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at Galatians and what Paul writes with regard to hypocrisy within the church…
Asia Bibi happy to be in Canada but ‘very tired’ after blasphemy ordeal, says friend
Winnipeg, CanadaRNS When he heard that Asia Bibi – the Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy – was on her way to Canada, Nadeem Bhatti could hardly believe it. “We had been told three or four times she was going to be leaving, but it never turned out,” said Bhatti, a friend of the family […]