In the US, United Methodist leaders propose plan to split church over LGBTQ ordination, marriage
RNS Bishops and leaders of a number of United Methodist groups have announced a proposed agreement to split the United Methodist Church. The proposal, called the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation, would create a new conservative “traditionalist” Methodist denomination that would receive $US25 million over the next four years. People attend the day of […]
US says it killed top Iranian commander Soleimani in air strike
Updated: 4.30pmBaghdad, IraqReuters The United States killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Iran’s spreading military influence in the Middle East, on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon and Iran said. Top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani, was also […]
Zimbabwe’s parched Bulawayo rations to save dwindling water
Bulawayo, ZimbabweThomson Reuters Foundation Families in the southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo are going up to four days without running water as drought dries the dams the city depends on, city council officials said. The city has since late November imposed 96-hour dry periods for residential water customers, though industrial and business users have continued […]
FAITH AND THE DEAF: AT GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, DEAF CULTURE AND FAITH MIX TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…
Your money or your life: Can nations prosper by putting well-being before GDP in 2020?
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation With protests from Chile to Hong Kong last year over widening inequality, violence against women, and climate change, more policymakers and campaigners started to openly debate potential shifts away from an economic model that relies on growth. New Zealand became the first nation to introduce a Wellbeing Budget that requires all […]
ESSAY: THE HERO OF THE FILM ‘JUST MERCY’ COULD BE YOU
US author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about why people should see the new film, ‘Just Mercy’…