SNAPSHOT: PERITO MORENO GLACIER, ARGENTINA
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: Hillsong UNITED marks streaming milestone
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As glacial lake bursts, preparation saves lives in Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to prepare Pakistani mountain communities threatened by the collapse of glacial lakes, as climate change brings faster glacier melt, paid off this week as a flood ravaged five villages in Chitral district but appeared to cost no lives, Pakistan and international officials said. The flood on Sunday in the Golain […]
US conference to host victims of religious persecution
Washington, DCReuters The US State Department said on Thursday it would host a conference in Washington next week to highlight the problem of religious persecution, and has invited victims of recent attacks at a synagogue in San Diego, mosques in New Zealand and an Easter Day bombing in Sri Lanka. US ambassador for religious freedom, […]
SOUTH AFRICA: BAPTISM BY TOXIC WATER – MINE WASTE, SEWAGE THREATEN WORSHIPPERS
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa…
Echo chambers – Fake news fact-checks hobbled by low reach, study shows
Brussells, BelgiumReuters The European Union has called on Facebook and other platforms to invest more in fact-checking, but a new study shows those efforts may rarely reach the communities worst affected by fake news. The analysis by big-data firm Alto Data Analytics over a three-month period ahead of this year’s EU elections casts doubt on […]
ESSAY: WHEN IT COMES TO INDIGENOUS RECOGNITION IN AUSTRALIA, KEN WYATT WILL HAVE TO CLOSE MULTIPLE GAPS
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHELLE GRATTAN, of the University of Canberra, looks at hurdles that will have to be overcome in Australia’s Indigenous people are to be given constitutional recognition…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S GALATIAN LETTER: A COVENANT TO ENSLAVE? NOT AT ALL, PART II
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at Galatians 4:21-31 – and what Paul’s refereces to Abraham’s two sons are all about…
Arrests of immigrant families promised by Trump to begin on Sunday, Times says
New York/Washington, DCReuters US authorities on Sunday will begin arresting at least 2,000 immigrant families eligible for deportation in a nationwide series of raids long threatened by President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported, citing former and current officials. Trump forewarned of the planned operation in a 17th June Twitter message, but it was […]