POSTCARDS: IN WAR-RAVAGED KABUL, WOMEN THRONG PARKS FOR PEACE AND PICNICS
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Church of Canada may disappear by 2040, says new report
RNS A “wake-up call.” That’s what Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, called a new report showing there may be no members left in the mainline Canadian denomination in 20 years. General Synod 2019 opens on the evening of 10th July with worship at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver, British […]
Trump says he will “strongly consider” testifying in impeachment inquiry
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump on Monday said for the first time that he might be willing to testify in the impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine, even as Democrats questioned the truthfulness of his testimony in the Russia 2016 election interference probe. Lawmakers in the Democratic-led impeachment process in the […]
Australia’s devastating bushfires reflect God’s wrath, rugby star preaches
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s Pentecostal prime minister on Monday rebuked a former national rugby star who claimed recent deadly bushfires and a devastating drought were God’s punishment for the country allowing same-sex marriage and abortion. Israel Folau, who was sacked from a multi-million dollar rugby contract in May after posting on Instagram that hell awaited “drunks, […]
Free bus rides seen as just one step to get more Indian women into public life
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Providing free bus travel for female commuters in Delhi should help more women join the workforce and improve their safety but a lot more needs to be done to give them better access to public life, according to one of India’s top court lawyers. From building more bathrooms for women, providing […]
Hit by drought and power cuts, Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
Bulawayo, ZimbabweThomson Reuters Foundation As worsening drought slashes the country’s hydropower production, creating lengthy power cuts, Zimbabwe’s industries are beginning to turn to solar panels and battery storage systems to keep business humming. Distributed Power Africa, a subsidiary of mobile phone provider Econet Global, has over the last year begun installing solar panels and Tesla-supplied […]
Brands urged to think bigger on saving forests as 2020 goal looms
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Green certification is not a silver bullet to end deforestation, leaving many global household brands struggling to meet pledges to halt forest-clearing linked to the production of palm oil and other ingredients by 2020, said a body grouping those firms. After environmentalists staged a series of high-profile campaigns against large […]
THE INTERVIEW: JOANNE ROGERS SPEAKS ON HER HUSBAND FRED ROGER’S COMMITMENT TO PRAYER, CHURCH AND CHILDREN
ADELLE M BANKS speaks with Joanne Rogers, widow of iconic US children’s TV identity, Fred Rogers, about her husband’s faith and the new film to be released this month starring Tom Hanks as her husband and Maryann Plunkett as herself…
West Africa boot camp seeks artificial intelligence fix for climate-hit farmers
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Data analyst Fabrice Sonzahi enrolled in a course on artificial intelligence in Dakar, hoping to help struggling farmers improve crop yields in his home country of Ivory Coast. He is part of an inaugural batch of students at a new AI programming school in Senegal, one of the first in West […]
ESSAY: URBAN UNREST PROPELS GLOBAL WAVE OF PROTESTS
In an article first published on The Conversation, political scientist HENRY F (CHIP) CAREY, of Georgia State University in the US, looks at the root causes of protests which have broken out in nations across the world…