Asia-Pacific meth drug trade worth up to $US61 billion, UN says
Bangkok, ThailandReuters Transnational crime groups are trafficking vast quantities of methamphetamine made in South-East Asia, the United Nations said on Thursday, putting the value of the Asia-Pacific market for the drug between $US30.3 billion and $US61.4 billion. The explosion in the meth trade, from an estimated $US15 billion in 2013, comes as powerful syndicates exploit […]
“Appalling” arson attack on Japanese animation studio kills at least 33
TokyoReuters A man shouted “die” as he doused an animation studio with fuel and set it ablaze in Japan on Thursday, public broadcaster NHK said, killing at least 33 people in the nation’s worst mass murder in nearly two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the attack in the city of Kyoto – the latest […]
After #MeToo, US women seen reporting less workplace harassment
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation From leering and unwanted touching to being asked for sexual favours, US women say they suffer less sexual harassment in the workplace since #MeToo brought the issue to the fore, but sexism has increased, researchers said on Wednesday. The #MeToo movement began in 2017 in the United States as a response to […]
KNOW IT ALL SPECIAL: FIVE FAITH FACTS ABOUT THE MOON LANDING – SPACE COMMUNION AND A PRAYER LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
In a special ahead of this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, look at five “faith facts” related to the lunar event…
‘The Dish’ still beaming signals from Australia 50 years after Moon walk
Parkes, AustraliaReuters It’s known as “The Dish” and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 million people around the world held their collective breath […]
Trump meets Chinese Uighur, other religious persecution victims at White House
Washington, DCReuters US President Donald Trump, who has made religious freedom a centrepiece of his foreign policy, met on Wednesday with victims of religious persecution from countries like China, Turkey, North Korea, Iran and Myanmar. Trump counts evangelical Christians among his core supporters and the State Department is hosting a conference on the topic this […]
Bolivia declares gender killings a national priority
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Bolivia, which has one of South America’s highest rates of women being killed because of their gender, has declared femicide a national priority and will step up efforts to tackle growing violence, a top government rights official said on Tuesday. Since January authorities have recorded 73 femicides – the killing of […]
Ebola: Why US survivor Dr Kent Brantly is returning to the mission field
In an article published by Religion News Service, BOBBY ROSS, Jr, talks to Ebola survivor Dr Kent Brantly about why he’s returning to Africa…
WHO sounds Ebola alarm as risks intensify
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighbouring countries. Despite a highly effective vaccine and a swift international response after it was declared 11 months ago, the outbreak […]
ESSAY: THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEEDS TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT BREXIT – HERE’S WHY
In an article first published on The Conversation, JONATHAN CHAPLIN, of the University of Cambridge, outlines why the Church of England needs to be a stronger voice in the Brexit conversation…