White House takes low-key approach to churches that ignore coronavirus advice
Washington DC, USRNS On Wednesday, Trump administration officials continued to call out those who have violated government recommendations to avoid meeting in groups larger than 10 people, particularly younger Americans who have continued to dine out at bars and restaurants. But they said little about another group that is resisting their guidance: a subset of […]
WORLD IN CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS CHASES THE SLUM DWELLERS OF LATIN AMERICA
OSCAR LOPEZ and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, reporting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, look at the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on those living in South America’s slums…
Vatican returns to the past with Easter COVID-19 restrictions
Vatican CityRNS Over the past 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has weathered wars, natural disasters and plagues. As Italy faces one of its gravest challenges in recent years in the coronavirus pandemic, the church’s rich history contains lessons about how to live out the Catholic faith in times of crisis. Among those lessons: how to […]
ESSAY: MUBARAK’S LASTING LEGACY ON EGYPT’S COPTIC CHRISTIANS
In an article first published on The Conversation, JAMALI RAMAZAN KILINC, associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska Omaha in the US, looks at the history of the fraught relationships between the Coptic Church and those in power in Egypt…