Fierce typhoon hits northern Japan after paralysing Tokyo
TokyoReuters The most powerful typhoon to hit Tokyo in decades plowed into northern Japan early on Sunday after fierce rain and wind paralysed the capital, led to four deaths, millions under evacuation warnings, rivers flooded and normally busy streets deserted. Authorities lifted rain and flood warnings for the Kanto region around a becalmed Tokyo before […]
British city launches innovative fund to tackle climate change, poverty
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The mayor one of Britain’s largest cities has launched an innovative fund aimed at tackling social and environmental problems from hungry children to carbon emissions. The £10 million venture – the first of its kind in the UK – launched on Wednesday aims to attract private sector contributions to advance Bristol’s 2050 […]
End world’s “coal addiction” to avert climate devastation, UN chief says
Copenhagen, DenmarkThomson Reuters Foundation Too much of the world is still addicted to coal power even as climate change “threatens the viability of human societies”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, singling out Asian nations over their ongoing use of the fossil fuel. The UN chief told a gathering of world mayors in Copenhagen […]
Newman poised to be “saint of friendship” in today’s polarised church
Vatican CityRNS Cardinal John Henry Newman, a Catholic convert who was able to bridge the divide with the Anglican Church and was among the most respected theologians of the 19th century, will become a saint on Sunday (13th October), as Catholicism faces new divisions from within. “Some people say this is a battle for the soul […]
Churches body calls for an end to violence in Syria as Turkish operation gains pace
The World Council of Churches has condemned the violence in Syria after the Turkish military launched an operation in the country’s north-east this week. Tens of thousands of people have reportedly fled their homes amid fears of a humanitarian disaster and renewed attacks by terror group, the so-called Islamic State, in the area of conflict. […]
THE INTERVIEW: DONNIE MCCLURKIN – “I’M AT A TIME NOW I SING WHEN I WANT TO”
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Grammy-winning Gospel singer and pastor Donnie McClurkin…
At Amazon synod, women insist that equality should mean the right to vote
Vatican CityRNS Catholic women attending the summit of bishops at the Vatican on the Amazon region praised the climate of inclusivity and openness ushered in by Pope Francis but insisted that equality demands they also have a right to vote. “As many other religious women, we believe we have come to the point that our […]