Mothers of Colombia’s disappeared seek justice at war tribunal
Bogata, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Mothers of young men and teenagers who say their sons were murdered by government soldiers during Colombia’s conflict begged a tribunal for answers on Thursday as the country investigates human rights atrocities committed during its war. Colombia’s five-decade war pitted leftist rebels against government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups. Some 200,000 […]
SNAPSHOT: ADJAMÉ MARKET, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
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Historic all-female spacewalk set for Friday at International Space Station
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will make history on Friday when they conduct the first ever all-female spacewalk to replace the power source on the International Space Station. The pair will exit the ISS at 7:50am EDT (11:50 GMT) to fix the station’s faulty battery charge/discharge unit over a […]
US National Association of Evangelicals names new president, diverse leadership
RNS Scholar and minister Walter Kim, an expert on the theology of race, has been chosen as the next president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Kim is a pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has served on the board of the group, an umbrella organisation of 40 evangelical Christian denominations, since […]
Belgian solar car team wins 3,000 km race through Australian outback
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters A team from Belgium’s KU Leuven University has won a 3,000 kilometre race for solar-powered cars through the Australian outback, organisers said, as the cars arrived in the South Australian capital of Adelaide on Thursday. The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge is one of the world’s most prestigious solar car races created to foster […]
World Council of Churches head nominated as presiding bishop of Church of Norway
Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been nominated as the next presiding bishop of the Church of Norway. Tveit, who has served as general secretary of the WCC for the past 10 years, is the only nomination for the position in accordance with church regulations. An ordained pastor […]
SUSTAINABILITY: PLASTIC BOTTLES VS ALUMINIUM CANS – WHO’LL WIN THE GLOBAL WATER FIGHT?
Reuters’ ERIC ONSTAD reports on the complex battle to improve the sustainability of our drinking containers…
Older US Christians being quickly replaced by young “nones” – Pew report
RNS The United States is steadily becoming less Christian and the number of people with no religion is rising. Those are the twin headlines from the latest Pew Research report released Thursday, which shows a dramatic decline in American religious habits over the course of a decade. The report, an aggregation of yearly political surveys […]
ESSAY: LOS ANGELES IS FAR FROM ENDING HOMELESSNESS – BUT OTHER AMERICAN CITIES CAN STILL LEARN A LOT FROM IT
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRENDA WIEWEL, director of the Initiative to Eliminate Homelessness at the University of Southern California, looks at what lessons can be learned from some innovative approaches to tackling homelessness in Los Angeles…