SIGHT-SEEING: COULD A REVIVED “THEOLOGY OF HOPE” RESTORE FAITH IN HOPELESS TIMES?
In an article first published in Sightings – a publication of the school’s Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, author, speaker, columnist, pastor, and teacher and professor of religious history at the University of Chicago, MARTIN E MARTY, looks at the idea of hope…
Violence spreads across Hong Kong’s New Territories in 24th weekend of unrest
Hong KongReuters Police fired tear gas and water cannon to break up rallies as activists blocked roads and trashed shopping malls across Hong Kong’s New Territories and Kowloon peninsula on Sunday during the 24th straight weekend of anti-government unrest. Protesters shouted abuse at “black police” in Cantonese wherever officers appeared, referring to perceived brutality against […]
Australia battles bushfires, prepares for “catastrophic” conditions
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australian firefighters raced on Sunday to contain widespread bushfires that have left three people dead, and warned of “catastrophic” fire conditions ahead, including around the country’s biggest city of Sydney. Authorities upgraded the forecast for the greater Sydney region to catastrophic fire danger on Tuesday, the first time the city has been rated […]
Sri Lankan politicians woo women voters
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation With campaign promises like free sanitary pads and childcare for working women, the candidates in Sri Lanka’s presidential election are going after the female vote like never before, in what some activists see as a generational shift. An increasingly vocal women’s rights movement, a rise in the number of women […]
Diet for healthy people, healthy planet too costly for some
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation At least one in five people could not afford science’s ‘ideal diet’ designed to feed 10 billion people without hurting the planet, according to a study published on Friday. The EAT-Lancet report made headlines when it was unveiled in January because it proposed the first scientific targets for both a healthy […]