Hong Kong leader invokes emergency powers to quell escalating violence
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move intended to quell escalating violence in the Chinese-ruled city. Lam, speaking at a news conference, said a ban on face masks would take effect on Saturday under the […]
SNAPSHOT: CHUUK LAGOON, MICRONESIA
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A quarter of religiously affiliated US teens pray regularly before eating lunch at school – survey
A quarter of US teenagers who identify with a religion and attend public school say they pray regularly before eating lunch at school, according to the results of a Pew Research Center survey. But the survey of 1,811 US adolescents aged 13 to 17 found that the figure rose to 39 per cent among evangelical […]
UK Christian doctor to appeal finding in transgender pronouns case
A UK doctor who was sacked because he refused to use transgender pronouns due to his Christian beliefs has said he will appeal a decision that his employer did not breach his right to religious freedom. Dr David Mackereth, an experienced emergency department doctor from Dudley in England’s West Midlands, had claimed the Department for Work […]
What all US college students need to know about religion, according to the AAR
RNS The American Academy of Religion has published a broad set of guidelines outlining what every undergraduate student should know about religion. The three-year effort by members of the AAR, the century-old association of scholars, is an attempt to provide a baseline for religious literacy in hopes of challenging undergraduates at two- and four-year colleges to better […]
GREAT WORKS: ‘THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD’
DAVID ADAMS looks at one of the most famous English depictions of Christ…
South Asian herders fight for right to roam as pressure to settle grows
Udaipur, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation South Asian pastoralists facing shrinking rangelands and a rise in conflicts over the right to roam must be allowed greater involvement in managing lands to help secure their survival, land experts said on Thursday. Herders around the world are coming under pressure from governments to settle down and stop their livestock […]
CATHOLIC CHURCH: OPPOSITION TO AMAZON SYNOD SPURS NEW RIGHT-WING COALITION IN BRAZIL
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, of Religion News Service, reports from Brazil ahead of the Vatican’s Amazon synod which starts this Sunday…
Homeless photographer’s haunting images spotlight London’s “invisible” population
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation A crumpled cigarette packet, wet footsteps on an empty street, a slender syringe pushed against a wall – lonely images that exemplify the haunting exhibition of photographs taken by a homeless Londoner, which opened on Thursday. The gritty tableau are the work of Andy Palfreyman, a 54-year-old homeless man known as the […]
ESSAY: CAMPUS FRIENDSHIPS CAN END A CIVIL WAR BEFORE IT STARTS
In an article first published on Religion News Service, PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, senior adviser for public affairs and innovation at Interfaith Youth Core, looks at the role cultivating friendships – particularly with those who come from different worldviews – on universities and colleges can play in bringing together a divided America…