Refugee stories hit Australian billboards for World Vision’s “Big Impact” campaign
Eleven-year-old Yasmin’s life changed completely when her family was forced to flee their home in Syria and start a new life in a refugee settlement. Her new life certainly isn’t easy but, thanks to the aid of World Vision, she not only receives nutritious food (this through a partnership with the UN World Food Programme) […]
A SUSTAINABLE LIFE: COULD FLOATING CITIES HELP PEOPLE ADAPT TO RISING SEA LEVELS?
NATHALIE MEZZA-GARCIA, a PhD candidate at the UK’s University of Warwick, looks at the concept of floating cities…
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ gets mixed reviews from disaster’s survivors
Chernobyl, UkraineReuters Critics and viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have lined up to acclaim Chernobyl, a dramatisation of events surrounding the world’s worst nuclear accident – but the reactions of some of the survivors are less rose-tinted. Sergii Parashyn, the then chairman of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s Communist Party Committee, said the […]
US names first Native American woman poet laureate
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation The US on Wednesday named its first Native American to the role of poet laureate, a woman whose poetry reflects the struggles and stories of Indigenous people in America. The poems of Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, are “carriers of dreams, knowledge and wisdom,” said […]
UK urged not to arrest homeless as rough sleeping hits decade high in London
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Rough sleeping in London rose by 18 per cent over the last year, hitting a decade high of 8,855 people, data showed on Wednesday, the majority of whom were new to bedding down in parks or doorways. Eviction from privately rented accommodation was one of the most common reasons people were pushed […]
REFUGEES: US-BASED CHURCH WORLD SERVICE HOSTS ‘RATION CHALLENGE’ AROUND GLOBAL DAY
As World Refugee Day is marked across the globe, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on an initiative to raise awareness of the challenges refugees face and funds to support them…
Pakistan to set up special courts to tackle violence against women
Lahore, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation Pakistan is to set up more than 1,000 courts dedicated to tackling violence against women, the country’s top judge announced on Wednesday, seeking to tackle a problem activists say the criminal justice system has long neglected. Asif Saeed Khosa said the special courts would allow victims to speak out without fear […]
ESSAY: FACEBOOK’S LIBRA REQUIRES TOO MUCH TRUST
MAL FLETCHER looks at Facebook’s proposed new cryptocurrency, Libra…
POSTCARDS: AT 87, ‘DISASTER DEACON’ OPENS HIS HEART – AND CHURCH – TO FLOODING VICTIMS
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, reports from the US state of Oklahoma for Religion News Service…
In the US, most white evangelicals blame journalists for fake news says survey
RNS A new survey finds that white evangelical Protestants are more concerned about made-up or “fake” news than any other major religious group and are also the most likely to blame journalists for creating it. According to a new report unveiled earlier this month by Pew Research, a majority of white evangelicals (59 per cent) say they […]