THE BIG PICTURE: ‘JESUS GIVES LIFE TO THE FULL’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s July poster….
Britain’s National Trust charity to sell fossil fuel assets
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s National Trust will sell all of its investments in the fossil fuel industry by 2022, the conservation charity announced on Thursday. The charity invests £45 million in fossil fuel companies – four per cent of its one billion pound stock market portfolio – despite having itself warned of the dangers of […]
Fears of evictions as Bangladesh gives rivers legal rights
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A ruling by Bangladesh’s top court granting rivers the same legal rights as people could hurt the poor fishing and farming communities that depend on them, human rights activists said. The Supreme Court declared this week that all Bangladesh’s rivers had the legal status of living entities, a move aimed at […]
MALAWI: STORM SURVIVORS PLACE HOPE IN SOLAR POWER TO SWITCH ON “NEW LIFE”
CHARLES PENSULA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how solar power systems survived the recent devastation of Cyclone Idai in Malawi, sparking new hopes for disaster resilient systems…
Iraqi refugee in New Mexico leaves church sanctuary after two years
RNS Kadhim Al-bumohammed, a 66-year-old Muslim refugee from Iraq who trained tens of thousands of US soldiers in Arabic and Arab culture, walked out of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, church basement last month a free man. Al-bumohammed had spent two years inside of First Congregational United Church of Christ seeking sanctuary from deportation. Kadhim Al-bumohammed, […]
ESSAY: MEXICANS IN US ROUTINELY CONFRONT LEGAL ABUSE, RACIAL PROFILING, ICE TARGETING AND OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
In an article first published on The Conversation, US scholars DAVID FITZGERALD, ANGELA Y MCCLEAN and GUSTAVO LOPEZ say the treatment of Mexicans living in the US paint a troubling picture…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: A COVENANT TO ENSLAVE? NOT AT ALL, PART I
BRUCE C WEARNE grapples with Paul’s response to those Galatian Christians who wish to continue to live under law…
Kyrgyzstan makes history as it ends plight of last “legal ghosts”
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Kyrgyzstan handed citizenship to the last stateless people on its territory on Thursday in what UN officials hailed as a breakthrough in the global fight to end the plight of millions of “legal ghosts” who lack any nationality. An estimated 10 to 15 million people worldwide are not recognised as nationals by […]