WOW!: SPANISH CODERS HARNESS TECH TO TRACK RISKS FOR FIREFIGHTERS
MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Spain…
US presidential candidates visits woman taking sanctuary in a church; other Democratic candidates voice support
RNS An undocumented woman living in an Ohio church to avoid deportation met with Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Tuesday , one of several Democratic White House hopefuls now signaling support for her cause and the New Sanctuary Movement. Castro visited Columbus Mennonite Church in Columbus, Ohio, to meet undocumented Mexican immigrant Edith Espinal ahead of […]
Second Greek migrant camp in flames as arrivals continue to rise
Athens, GreeceReuters A fire in a severely overcrowded migrant camp in Greece forced hundreds of people into the streets, compounding their plight with more refugees arriving on Greek islands daily in what an aid group called a worsening “nightmare”. Greece sent more police to the island of Samos on Tuesday after the fire, which occurred […]
Baby found buried alive highlights India’s battle to protect girls
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A baby girl found buried alive in India was a suspected case of female infanticide, police said on Monday, the latest to highlight the preference for sons in a country where the number of girls has been declining. A couple, who went to bury their newborn at a grave after […]
BOOKS: CONFRONTING FAMILY VIOLENCE
DAVID ADAMS reads Michael Clark’s ‘From Villian To Hero’…
London doctor awarded for helping Syria’s ‘burnt-out heroes’ in hell
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation When a children’s hospital in Aleppo was decimated in 2016 after multiple bombings, British-Syrian doctor Rola Hallam decided to turn her grief into action. Within weeks the London consultant anaesthetist was on the way to the Syrian border with enough equipment to build the world’s first crowdfunded hospital. “Thousands of people […]
Christian slain in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, 13 others killed in Plateau state
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a young Christian man after stopping him on a highway in Kaduna state on 5th October, while in Plateau state another 13 Christians have been slain in less than a month, sources said. Armed herdsmen stopped the vehicle of Bartholomew David, 23, and a female passenger shortly after […]
Japan typhoon death toll rises to 58 as hopes for missing fade
Tokyo, JapanReuters The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades climbed to 58 on Tuesday as rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for the missing and as thousands of homes remained without power or water. The storm hit a wide swathe of central and eastern Japan, […]
EQUALITY
Today human equality is a foundational assumption of society. We are all equal. Yet, for most of human history the exact opposite was considered true – natural inequality was self-evident! Some are stronger, taller, smarter – and different abilities gives different responsibilities and privileges. That’s how you get ideas like a ruling class – […]
THE INTERVIEW: ANDREW BRUNSON TELLS OF “FIGHT FOR MY FAITH” IN TURKEY
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with freed American missionary Andrew Brunson about a new book detailing his final two years in Turkey where he spent months in a cramped cell before he was released following a campaign by US politicians and Christian leaders…