WOW!: OUT OF COURT – UGANDANS TURN TO “BAREFOOT LAWYERS” TO SETTLE LAND DISPUTES
LIAM TAYLOR, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Ugandan non-profit is helping people did with property rights issues…
Amazon emissions lowest from Indigenous and protected lands, scientists say
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous lands and protected areas in the Amazon rainforest account for just 10 per cent of all carbon emissions from tropical forests spread across the nine countries of the Amazon in South America, researchers said on Monday. The Amazon, as the world’s largest tropical rainforest, is considered key to the fight […]
Trump offers China “any help” as virus toll grows, markets reel
Shanghai, ChinaReuters US President Donald Trump offered China any help needed on Monday to control a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 81 people, stranded tens of millions during the biggest holiday of the year and rattled global markets. With provincial authorities taking increasing flak from the public over their initial response, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang […]
UK children to get right to know if parents are spying on them
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation British children will get the right to know when their parents are spying on them online under a binding code for technology firms, a data watchdog announced last week. Companies must tell children if their products include parental controls to limit access or watch over them and offer an “obvious sign” […]
Rescuer opens home to baby flying foxes orphaned by Australian bushfires
Bomaderry, AustraliaReuters Janine Davies lifts out a three-week-old baby flying fox from its makeshift home of a towel draped over a rack in her bathroom and gently feeds it milk using a tiny bottle. Like any mother of a newborn, Davies is running on little sleep as she cares for around 50 grey-headed flying foxes […]
China virus deaths rise to 80 as Hong Kong bans visitors from worst-hit province
ShanghaiReuters The death toll from China’s new coronavirus grew to 80 on Monday as residents of Hubei province, where the disease originated, were banned from entering Hong Kong amid global efforts to halt the rapid spread of the outbreak. The number of deaths from the flu-like virus in Hubei province climbed from 56 to 76 […]
Half of Australians donated to bushfire appeal – survey
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts, a new survey showed over the weekend, with meteorologists warning more hot and dry weather is to return after a heavy rain respite dampened many of the blazes. The Australian bush has always burned, but this season’s fires, which began early, […]
FILM: CONTROVERSIAL COMEDY ‘FAITH BASED’ POKES FUN AT CHRISTIAN FILMS – TO A POINT
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with those behind the new film ‘Faith Based’…
New technology helps archeologists identify Bible scribes
Jerusalem, IsraelReligion Unplugged In 1910, Harvard University Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner was conducting an excavation in the palace of King Ahab in Samaria. Once the first capital of the Biblical Kingdom of Israel, the adjoining village of Sebastia had been reduced to a backwater in Ottoman Palestine. There the American stumbled on an extraordinary discovery – more […]
ESSAY: TRUMP WOOS CATHOLICS ON ABORTION BUT MAY LOSE THEM ON LIFE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN GEHRING, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life Action, looks at the broader relationship between Catholics and pro-life issues against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s historic appearance at last Friday’s March for Life…