THIS LIFE: NO SHORTCUTS ON THE PATH OF LIFE
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about why it’s important to “stay the course”…
Eight die as fire sweeps through Czech home for intellectually disabled
BosNewsLifePrague, Czech Republic/Budapest, Hungary Authorities in the Czech Republic say at least eight people were killed and more than 30 injured as one of the country’s deadliest fires in decades swept through a Czech home for the intellectually disabled near the German border. Several ambulances and rescue crews from neighboring Germany rushed to the burning […]
Prominent Christian activist disappears in Iran – reports
Tehran, IranBosNewsLife Iran has reportedly detained a prominent Christian rights activist who converted from Islam to Christianity and publicly expressed anger about her country’s Islamic leadership. The whereabouts of Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi, 21, remained unknown late on Sunday, 18th January. Several religious rights activists said she was transported to a secret location. Mary Fatemeh Mohammadi […]
India’s Dalits protest against plan to develop common land
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Protests have flared in the Indian state of Punjab over a government plan to use common land for industrial development, a move that activists and analysts said last week would deny lower-caste Dalits their land rights. The state government last month approved a proposal to amend a 1964 law to include […]
PayPal offers up financial data to combat human trafficking
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation PayPal Holdings Inc will share its financial data with a leading advocacy group in the United States to try and stop human traffickers from moving funds on the digital money transfer platform. Human traffickers often force people into modern slavery which generates around $US150 billion a year in illegal […]
CATHOLIC ACTIVISM: 50 YEARS LATER, CHICANO CATHOLIC ACTIVISTS RECALL THEIR MIDNIGHT MASS CLASH WITH POLICE
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports from a recent reunion of Mexican American Catholic activists in Los Angeles…