Rich countries urged to do more as COVID-19 hits poor, war-torn nations
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Wealthy countries were facing mounting calls on Monday to give more funding to poorer nations to help protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the spread of the virus was outpacing the global response. Oxfam called for richer nations to deliver a $US160 billion package of […]
ESSAY: THE PRESIDENT, THE PANDEMIC AND THE LIMITS OF POSITIVE THINKING
US professors of sociology MARK MULDER and GERARDO MARTI – authors of the upcoming book ‘The Glass Church: Robert H Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry’ – look at the possible role of “positive thinking” in US President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis…
Florida pastor arrested for refusing to halt worship amid outbreak
RNS A Florida pastor was arrested by a local sheriff on Monday after he refused to stop holding worship services at his church despite regulations banning large in-person gatherings that could further the spread of the novel coronavirus. For weeks, Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of the River at Tampa Bay Church has defied local regulations designed […]