POSTCARDS: FROM FINE DINING TO $1 SCHOOL LUNCHES – THE TOP CHEF TRYING TO CHANGE HOW AMERICANS EAT
THIN LEI WIN, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, speaks about chef Dan Giusti about his work in feeding thousands of underprivileged children at public schools in the United States…
Rich countries cut spending on humanitarian crises as demand rises
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Wealthy countries including the United States, Germany and Britain spent less on aid for humanitarian crises last year, even as the United Nations said it was dealing with unprecedented need, research released on Monday showed. The United States, the world’s biggest donor of humanitarian aid, cut its spending by six per cent […]
Passion for winter sports can help fight climate change, organisers say
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Fans and players of winter sports from skiing to hockey could be marshalled in efforts to fight climate change, from election campaigning to calculating the impact of global warming on ice-skating ponds, organisers said last week. Skiing, ice hockey and outdoor skating are all affected by climate change, but […]
US says Cuban medical missions are trafficking doctors
Thomson Reuters Foundation United States officials on Thursday called on all nations to stop using Cuba’s medical missions, which send doctors around the world, saying that Cuba refused to pay the medical staff and held them against their will. Cuba’s international medical missions are a form of human trafficking and modern slavery, US State Department […]
“A trafficker lives here” – Bangladesh uses red paint to mark suspects’ homes
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladeshi border guards are painting warnings on the homes of suspected human and drug traffickers in eastern villages in a bid to curb to trafficking to India, an official said on Friday. Houses in villages near the border with northeast India have been marked in red paint with phrases such as […]
Hong Kong on edge ahead of sensitive Chinese anniversary
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong’s metro stations and roads re-opened on Monday, after a chaotic weekend that saw police fire water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who set fires and threw petrol bombs outside government offices and across central districts. Residents of the former British colony awoke to roads, shop fronts and buildings […]
THE INTERVIEW: ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ, A YEAR AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS, SAYS JOY “NEVER LEFT ME”
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Billy Graham’s daugher, Anne Graham Lotz, about facing cancer, being a widow and an orphan, and defining the Holy Spirit…
Pope urges compassion for migrants and refugees
Pope Francis has urged people to show compassion to migrants and refugees as he unveiled a new monument to migration in St Peter’s Square on Sunday. The life-sized sculpture, known as Angels Unawares, is the work of Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz and depicts 140 migrants and refugees from different historical periods traveling on a boat including Mary […]
ESSAY: REDUCING THE REFUGEE CAP WILL DECIMATE CRUCIAL FAITH-BASED PARTNERSHIPS
In an article first published by Religion News Service, Rev MICHAEL B CURRY, primate of the Episcopal Church in the US, responding to the announcement of further cuts to the US Refugee Admissions Program, says “turning our backs on refugees contradicts our Christian values and harms our nation”…
THIS LIFE: FAITH ACROSS THE GENERATIONS
ELISABETH CARTER writes about how “something so wonderful” happens when Christians of different ages come together…