Teenager Thunberg angrily tells UN climate summit “you have stolen my dreams”
New York City, USReuters Teenage activist Greta Thunberg angrily denounced world leaders on Monday for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers in the heart of the United Nations by demanding: “How dare you?” The Swedish campaigner’s brief address electrified the start of a summit aimed at mobilising […]
Bangladesh rural families shoulder costs of coping with climate change
DhakaThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladeshi families in rural areas have been spending 12 times more each year than the foreign aid the flood-prone country receives to prepare for and cope with the effects of climate change, researchers said last week. Households headed by women – who generally earn less than men – are under even greater […]
ON THE SCREEN: BRAD PITT SHOOTS FOR THE STARS
MARCUS CHEONG reviews ‘Ad Astra’…
Filipina chef relying on chocoholics to help beat typhoon threats
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A Filipina chef is hoping chocolate will become the secret ingredient needed to help farmers in her typhoon-hit community survive and prosper when future natural disasters strike. Louise Mabulo, 21, founded the Cacao Project in the rural town of San Fernando, about 390 kilometres south of Manila, to help local […]
Hands off our cultural heritage, say world’s Indigenous people
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation From disappearing languages to selfie-taking tourists at sacred sites, preserving native cultural heritage has become a race against the clock, Indigenous groups said. The suicide of an Indigenous rights activist protesting against Russia’s language policies has highlighted the cultural threats native communities face across the globe as they fight for their […]
US ELECTION 2020: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND FORMER PASTOR MARK CHARLES CONFRONTS AMERICAN HISTORY
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, speaks with US presidential candidate Mark Charles…
Africa to seek declaration of global climate emergency at UN summit
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation African countries plan to call on the United Nations to declare a global climate emergency, among a set of demands to be presented at a climate summit in New York on Monday organised by the UN chief. Backed by African climate change negotiators, the statement is also expected to say that […]
ESSAY: PEOPLE OF FAITH KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Writing in the US context in an article first published by Religion News Service, Rev JOHN L MCCULLOUGH, CEO of Church World Service, and RUDELMAR BUENO DE FARIA, general secretary of the ACT Alliance, write about why they are advocating for “comprehensive action” at this week’s UN Climate Summit…
THIS LIFE: CAN WE FIND VICTORY IN DEATH?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, reflects on death and what it means in a Christian’s life…
US clerics O’Malley, McElroy selected to attend Amazon synod at Vatican
RNS Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, and Bishop Robert McElroy of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego have been invited to participate in the Vatican’s Amazon synod, two of three Americans selected to participate in the prominent gathering of Catholic clerics. The Vatican announced Saturday morning that the men will join some 185 voting clerics for […]