ORIGINS: ‘SESAME STREET’ TURNS 50
Iconic US children’s TV show ‘Sesame Street’ recently turned 50. DAVID ADAMS takes a look at how it all began…
Students stage global strikes to pressure UN climate summit
Lisbon, Portugal/Sydney, AustraliaReuters Thousands of people in Asia and Europe joined rallies demanding more action on climate change on Friday, aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had been due to join a student strike in Lisbon, but her environmentally […]
Australia moves closer to compulsory child abuse reporting by priests
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s top attorneys agreed on Friday to standardise laws across the country forcing priests to report child abuse revealed to them during confessions in a move that could widen a schism between the church and the government. Federal and state attorneys-general agreed on key principles for the laws, which fall under the responsibility […]
IMMIGRATION: MIGRANTS SAFEGUARD ITALY’S CULINARY HERITAGE AMID HOSTILE RHETORIC
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how migrants are involved in keeping alive the country’s agricultural and culinary heritage which those who oppose their presence take so much pride in…
On the eve of “16 Days”, churches in Nairobi launch Thursdays in Black
While lighting candles at a gathering of the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, church leaders, members of the civil society and youth on Monday launched Thursdays in Black, the global movement calling for resistance to attitudes and practices that permit rape and violence. Unveiling the campaign, Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, an African Brotherhood Church […]