WOW!: PRIZE-WINNING UK COUNCIL HOUSES SHOW SOCIAL HOMES CAN BE INSPIRED
SONIA ELKS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a prize-winning social housing development in the UK…
Two-thirds of Amazon Catholic bishops support married priests, says Brazil bishop
Vatican CityRNS According to one Brazil bishop attending the Vatican summit on the Amazon region, a majority of Brazilian bishops are in favor of allowing the ordination of married men to the priesthood. “Of the bishops who are in the Amazon region, I guess two-thirds are in favour of the viri probati,” said Emeritus Bishop Erwin […]
World churches head condemns attack in German synagogue
The World Council of Churches has condemned an attack on a German synagogue on Wednesday night with its head describing it as “a brazen display of racist anti-Semitism”. Two people were reportedly killed – one outside the synagogue and another in a nearby kebab shop – and two injured after a heavily armed man turned […]
Guterres warns UN may not have enough money to pay staff next month
Reuters The United Nations may not have enough money for staff salaries next month if member states don’t pay what they owe, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday. He told the 193-member UN General Assembly’s budget committee that if he had not worked since January to cut spending then “we would not have had […]
Australian prosecutors argue no grounds for ex-Vatican treasurer’s final sex crimes appeal
MelbourneReuters Prosecutors have urged Australia’s High Court to refuse to hear a final appeal by former Vatican treasurer George Pell against his convictions for sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys in the late 1990s. In opposing arguments put by Pell’s lawyers to Australia’s highest court, prosecutors said there was no error in the approach taken by […]
STRANGESIGHTS: A FELTY DELI; A SPECTRAL SHIP; AND, WHO’S THE FATTEST BEAR?
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Drug trade damaging Central America’s forests, researchers say
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Drug trafficking and organised crime are fuelling deforestation in protected tropical forests and national parks across Central America, causing substantial economic losses, researchers said on Tuesday. Traffickers are cutting down trees to build roads and airstrips to transport cocaine and are encroaching ever further into more remote forest areas to evade […]
UK “farm lab” ploughs technology to help raise animals sustainably
North Wyke, UKThomson Reuters Foundation It is an idyllic countryside scene – an embrace of rolling hills dappled with Instagram-worthy bales of straw, as sheep and cows graze under a bright blue sky. Completing the picture, a stately manor graces the background. But this bucolic setting belies a research project that uses cutting-edge technology on […]
Christian leaders call for Day of Prayer in support of impeachment inquiry
RNS More than 90 Christian leaders are calling for a National Day of Prayer this Sunday “for the truth to be revealed through the impeachment inquiry” into whether President Donald Trump solicited help from a foreign government for his 2020 reelection campaign. That call comes from leaders affiliated with Red Letter Christians, a justice-focused Christian movement that […]
MENTAL HEALTH: NEW RESOURCES TO HELP AUSTRALIAN CHURCHES “REDUCE STIGMA” AND “OPEN UP CONVERSATIONS”
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Keith and Sarah Condie, co-directors of Sydney-based Anglican Deaconess Ministries’ Mental Health and Pastoral Care Institute, about new resources to aid churches in addressing mental health issues within and without their congregations…