POSTCARDS: IN BARI, POPE CALLS MEDITERRANEAN REGION TO UNITY
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, writing for Religion News Service, reports on why Pope Francis chose the Italian city of Bari as a “stage for ecumenical outreach”…
Family of murdered British backpacker backs domestic violence campaign
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The family of Grace Millane, the 22-year-old British backpacker murdered in New Zealand, has inspired a worldwide campaign to donate handbags full of toiletries for women fleeing domestic violence. The ‘Love Grace X’ project started as a local initiative to support a women’s refuge in Essex, where Millane was from, but […]
Virus can still be beaten, too early to declare pandemic – WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level. “The key message that should give all countries hope, courage and confidence is that this virus can be contained, indeed […]
New Zealand moves to ban vaping ads, sales to minors
Reuters New Zealand’s government said on Sunday it will introduce laws banning all advertisements of e-cigarettes and the sale of such products to people under 18 in a move to regulate a market that has been under pressure globally. A string of vaping-related deaths and illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine […]
Boko Haram terrorists attack predominantly Christian community in north-east Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Islamic extremist militants from terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday night (Feb. 21) destroyed three worship sites and an unspecified number of houses in north-east Nigeria, sources said. Thousands of people were displaced as the militants set three church buildings and the houses on fire in predominantly Christian Garkida, in Adamawa state’s […]
Climate change gets first mention in G20 finance communique of Trump era
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaReuters Finance officials from the world’s 20 biggest economies on Sunday referenced climate change in their final communique for the first time in US President Donald Trump’s administration, but stopped short of calling it a major risk to the economy. The United States blocked including climate change on a list of downside risks […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: COLOMBIAN FARMERS BEFRIEND NATURE IN BID TO ADDRESS EXTREME WEATHER RISKS
Ten years after floods devastated part of Colombia, ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how farmers are preparing for the extreme weather of the future…
ESSAY: TRUMP OR NO TRUMP, US EVANGELICALS AREN’T CUSTODIANS OF THE WORLD”S GOSPEL WITNESS
Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s visit to India this week, Rev JOSEPH D’SOUZA, president of the All India Christian Council, says the voice of Christians from the “global south” has been overlooked in the debates over the President…
Concern over coronavirus spread as cases jump in South Korea, Italy and Iran
Seoul, Korea/Shanghai, ChinaReuters International concern about the spread of coronavirus outside China grew on Sunday with sharp rises in infections in South Korea, Italy and Iran. The government in Seoul put the country on high alert after the number of infections surged over 600 with six deaths. A focal point was a church in the […]