In the US, clergy protest outside Mitch McConnell’s office, demand action on gun violence
Washington, DCRNS A group of clergy protested outside Senator Mitch McConnell’s office on Tuesday, calling on the Republican Senate majority leader to take action to address gun violence in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend. The band of around two-dozen faith leaders, who called themselves the Coalition of Concerned Clergy, prayed and […]
Death toll from Texas shooting rampage rises to 22, Trump to visit El Paso
El Paso, TexasReuters Two more victims of a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, died of their wounds on Monday, police said, raising the death toll to 22 in the massacre as US President Donald Trump planned a visit to the stricken community. The latest fatalities bring to 31 the number […]
Britain urged to act over rising global attacks on aid workers
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Growing violence against aid and health workers in conflict zones is jeopardising humanitarian operations, British parliamentarians said on Tuesday as they urged the country to lead international efforts to hold aggressors to account. Nearly 300 aid workers and health workers were killed and more than 850 injured last year in almost 1,200 […]
Putin to Trump: We’ll develop new nuclear missiles if you do
Moscow, RussiaReuters Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States started doing the same after the demise of a landmark arms control treaty. The US formally left the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was […]
Indian state to map cotton supply chain to stamp out child labour
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A top cotton producing state in India is to start mapping its entire supply chain as part of a unique collaboration with the International Labour Organisation to weed out child labour and slavery from its fields and factories. The southern state of Telangana will this month begin a three-year project with […]
Google pledges carbon-neutral shipping, recycled plastic for all devices
San Francisco, USReuters Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022. The new commitments step up the competition among tech companies aiming to show consumers and governments that they are curbing the environmental […]
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When I was about 18-years-old, I discovered a very famous piece of Scripture, I Corinthians 13, on love. It’s a great passage and very profound, especially if you replace the word love with your own name. Try it sometime. Part of that famous Biblical passage that spoke to Paul Clark. PICTURE: Leighann Renee/Unsplash About six months later […]
NOSE FOR A PROBLEM: BARCELONA TESTS FIRST GLOBAL ODOUR MAP
SOPHIE DAVIES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Spain…
After mass killings, Trump condemns white supremacy but faces pressure for gun control while US Christian leaders call for action
Washington, DCReuters US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to mass shootings over the weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio. Republican Trump, who has been criticised by Democrats as stoking racial divisions with his rhetoric, […]
ESSAY: EL PASO AND DAYTON MASS SHOOTINGS – CHRISTIANS MUST ACT AS WELL AS PRAY
In an article first published by Religion News Service, JAMIE D ATEN, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College in the US as well as a founding signer of the Prayers and Action petition, looks at how Christians need to grapple with incidents like the mass shootings…