THIS LIFE: CHANGE DOESN’T NEED TO CAUSE FEAR
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the “good news” about life changes…
L’Arche founder Jean Vanier engaged in “manipulative” and “emotionally abusive” sexual relationships with six adult women – report
Jean Vanier, the deceased founder of the L’Arche organisation which supports people with developmental disabilities in communities around the world, engaged in “manipulative sexual relationships” with at least six adult women, according to an internally commissioned report. The report was based on an investigation carried out by independent UK consultancy GCPS at the behest of […]
Pope appears to give thumbs down to Trump’s Mideast peace plan
Bari, ItalyReuters Pope Francis on Sunday warned against “inequitable solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying they would only be a prelude to new crises, in an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal. Francis made his comments in the southern Italian port city of Bari, where he travelled to conclude a […]
Film ‘Greed’ urges fashion fans urged to rethink fast buys
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Moviegoers may scorn the billionaire fashion bosses in Greed which opened in Britain on Friday but anti-slavery activists said anyone who buys cheap clothes risks fuelling factory abuses. The film by British director Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan, takes aim at high-flying moguls whose lavish lifestyles, yachts and parties are built […]
Religious vaccine exemption bill stokes controversy in US state of Connecticut
RNS A proposed bill that would prohibit parents from citing religious or philosophical beliefs when refusing to vaccinate their school-age children stoked uproar in the US state of Connecticut last week, with some protesting the legislation and others voicing support for immunisations. According to the Hartford Courant, hundreds of demonstrators descended on the Connecticut capitol […]
MONEY TREES: US CITIES FIND NEW WAYS OF VALUING URBAN FORESTS
CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the trend for seeing trees as a city utility…