THIS LIFE: TRUE LOVE CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN GOD’S ARMS
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the search for “true love”…
Vatican police raid home, office of influential church official in investment inquiry
Vatican CityRNS Vatican police have raided the office and apartment of Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, a former top deputy in the Catholic Church’s powerful Secretariat of State, seizing documents and computers, according to a Vatican statement issued on Tuesday. The raid was ordered by Gian Piero Milano, the Vatican’s chief presecutor, and resulted from investigations into […]
Updated: Trump critic Russell Moore, ERLC to face scrutiny by Southern Baptists
Updated: 10.15amNashville, Tennessee, US RNS The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will launch a taskforce to examine the activities of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the convention’s public policy organisation headed by the theologian and author Russell Moore. Southern Baptist leaders fear controversy over Moore could lead to a drop in donations. Russell Moore, […]
Coronavirus infections slow in China as Apple becomes latest business casualty
Beijing/Shanghai, ChinaReuters The number of new coronavirus infections in mainland China fell below 2,000 on Tuesday for the first time since January, although global experts warn it is still too early to say the outbreak is being contained. The economic fallout from the epidemic spread to US technology titan Apple, which warned of iPhone shortages […]
Twenty-four killed in Burkina Faso church attack
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoBosNewsLife Suspected Islamic gunmen interrupted a weekly worship service at a Protestant church in northern Burkina Faso, killing 24 people, authorities confirmed late on Monday. Another 18 people were wounded in Sunday’s attack in Pansy town in Yagha province, the regional governor said. “The armed terrorists attacked the peaceful local population, after having […]
Malaysia urged to cut down on plastic packaging for cleaner seas
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation An analysis of Asia’s worst ocean polluters shows Malaysians are the biggest individual consumers of plastic packaging, green group WWF said on Monday, urging the government to limit single-use plastics and work with companies to fund a recycling push. The WWF report on plastics looked at China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the […]
Major Thai coffee brand vows to repay 200 debt-ridden farmers
Chiang Rai, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A major Thai coffee brand has vowed to repay about 200 farmers who were forced to take out loans while waiting nearly three years for payment, leaving them with spiralling debts. Doi Chaang Coffee – which has more than 50 franchises in South-East Asia – said it would pay about […]
GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
One of the hardest lessons to learn in life is that just because you don’t get what you want, doesn’t mean they don’t care. PICTURE: Andre Hunter/Unsplash We think: “If my parents or partner or boss cared, they’d give me what I want.” Remember the child screaming in the supermarket? They know this line – they […]
WOMEN AND THE CHURCH: GERMAN THEOLOGIAN SPEARHEADS TRANSITION TO A “GENDER APPROPRIATE” CATHOLIC CHURCH
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, writing for Religion News Service, reports on calls from within Germany’s Catholic Church for a greater role for women…
Unequal cities bear the brunt of deadly disease outbreaks
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation As the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus, becomes the latest urban centre to face a deadly disease outbreak, city planners and physicians say such densely packed hubs are particularly vulnerable and may need a redesign. Wuhan, a city of about 11 million, has been under virtual […]