‘Flight shame’ website spells out emissions toll on global climate
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Getting ready to cruise in first class from New York to Beijing? That will be 15.6 square metres of Arctic ice down the drain, thank you. Enjoy your flight. Such statistics detailing the environmental toll wrought by jet setting, or even just business travel, are the stuff of a […]
FILM: ‘RED SEA DIVING RESORT’ DRAMATISES ISRAEL’S DARING RESCUE OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS
JOSH M SHEPHERD reports, in a story published by Religion News Service, on the new film showing on Netflix about a seminal moment in Israel’s history…
In the US, ELCA Churchwide Assembly calls sexism and patriarchy sins, condemns white supremacy
Milwaukee, USRNS A new social statement from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America labels patriarchy and sexism as sins and acknowledges the church’s complicity in them. The social statement — titled ‘Faith, Sexism, and Justice: A Call to Action‘ — was approved by the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly with 97 per cent of the vote Friday morning […]
Thousands protest in Indian Kashmir over new status despite clampdown
Srinigar, IndiaReuters Indian police used tear gas and pellets to fight back at least 10,000 people protesting Delhi’s withdrawal of special rights for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state in its main city of Srinagar on Friday, a police official and two witnesses said. The demonstration soon after Friday prayers was the largest since authorities locked […]