OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: ALL AS ONE BEFORE CHRIST
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at a passage in Ephesians in which Paul emphasises the lack of distinction between Jewish and Gentile Christians…
Uncertainty over UN talks must not delay climate action, green groups say
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation A surprise decision by Chile, rocked by violent unrest, to withdraw as host of December’s UN climate conference risks throwing international efforts to ramp up action on global warming off course, environmentalists and rights activists fear. They urged quick efforts to reorganise the negotiations, aimed at accelerating cuts in planet-warming emissions […]
Sad, shocking: Inquiry finds Australia neglects older people
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters An inquiry into Australia’s providers of care for the elderly has found they fail to adequately look after the country’s old and vulnerable citizens, in a scathing assessment of the industry. The public investigation into mistreatment of the elderly in Australia’s $A20 billion aged-care industry that began in January is expected be followed […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Australia’s Colin Buchanan marks another milestone
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TRENDSPOTTER: ‘HYGGE’, ‘LAGOM’ AND ‘DONSTADNING’ – HOW EUROPEAN WORDS HAVE BECOME WELLNESS CATCHPHRASES
DAVID ADAMS looks at the trend for European lifestyle concepts…
Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor acknowledges a Southern Baptist Church
RNS A prominent Southern Baptist church in south-west Florida has acknowledged that “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate. Pastor Marcus Hayes, a leader of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, received 81 per cent of the vote by “a record 3,818” in attendance last […]
Abused Bangladeshi housemaids struggle for justice at home
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Traumatised Bangladeshi women who return home after being tortured and abused working in the Middle East rarely get justice because brokers intimidate them and they cannot afford legal aid, a rights group said on Wednesday. In interviews with 110 returnees, 86 per cent did not receive their full salaries, 61 per […]
US pastor trapped in India over customs violation
RNS A US pastor has spent the past three weeks stranded in India after he was arrested and then released over a customs violation, according to his attorney. Pastor Bryan Nerren, a US citizen who heads the International House of Prayer Ministries in Shelbyville, Tennessee, was on his way to Nepal with two other pastors […]
CLIMATE: HOW EGYPT’S FARMERS ARE TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH COMEDY AND COMMUNITY
MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Egypt…
Focused look at human trafficking could reveal better data, top US official says
Washington, DCThomson Reuters Foundation The United States could fight human trafficking effectively with more refined measuring tools which could distinguish young victims from old, or those trapped in domestic jobs from forced farm work, its top anti-trafficking official said on Tuesday. Ambassador-at-Large John Richmond, speaking after a top-level government anti-trafficking commission meeting, said targeted questions […]