SNAPSHOT: MT FUJI, JAPAN
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Barricades and books: life in restive Kashmir neighbourhood
Srinagar, IndiaReuters Few people step outside Anchar, a neighbourhood ringed by steel barricades and razor wire in Indian Kashmir, where police have imposed a weeks-long regionwide clampdown to stifle protests. The densely-populated, working class area in the main city, Srinagar, is a pocket of resistance to India’s removal in early August of special status for […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Australia’s The Saga, part II
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Resisting the loggers: Swiss explorer film spotlights threatened Malaysian tribe
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A film about one of the world’s last hunter-gatherer tribes living in Malaysia’s rainforest premiers on Thursday, with its Indigenous actors urging authorities to formally grant them land rights after a decades-long battle. Paradise War, which debuts at the Zurich Film Festival, follows the 1984 expedition made by intrepid Swiss […]
Christians in Algeria hit with more church closures
Tizi-Ouzou, AlgeriaMorning Star News Authorities today sealed shut a church building in Tigzirt, Algeria, two days after shutting another building serving two churches without prior notice, sources said. Acting on orders from the governor of Tizi-Ouzou Province, eight police officers arrived at 11:45am on Tuesday at the Church of Boghni building and sealed the doors […]
WATER WARS: INDIGENOUS LOCALS GO UP AGAINST MEXICO CITY AIRPORT
OSCAR LOPEZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Mexico…
In private meeting, Pope Francis opens up about his faith after his election
Vatican CityRNS During informal conversations with Jesuit clergy in Africa, Pope Francis opened up about his spirituality after being made pope – and criticised clericalism in the Catholic Church for its fixation on sex rather than equity and integrity. “One dimension of clericalism is the exclusive moral fixation on the sixth commandment [which in the […]
ESSAY: EVANGELICALS – BEMOANING DUKE’S YOUNG LIFE DECISION IS NOT ENOUGH
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KEVIN SINGER, co-director of US group Neighborly Faith, looks at some wider issues in light of Duke University’s student government recent decision to deny evangelical group Young Life official status on campus…
OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: OPENING WORDS, PART I
BRUCE C WEARNE kicks off a new series looking at the New Testament book of Ephesians…
Dutch queen says tech fears should not stop the poor getting banking
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Queen Maxima of the Netherlands urged financial regulators this week not to let fears over technology stall efforts to ensure everyone in the world has access to a bank account and credit to save money and build businesses. Maxima said progress had been made since she was appointed the […]