Native Americans fear government “attack” on tribal land amid coronavirus
Seattle, USThomson Reuters Foundation Native Americans slammed a decision by the US Government to revoke a tribe’s reservation status, which they warned would leave them without control over their land and place them at increased risk during the coronavirus pandemic. The US Bureau of Indian Affairs told the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe last week that its […]
Coronavirus spotlights risks of swelling slums in Africa’s cities
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the risks of allowing Africa’s swelling ranks of city dwellers to crowd into slums without proper access to water, sewers, transport and other public services, urban experts have warned. Not a single African city ranks in the world’s 10 most populous urban areas today – but […]
Indians pitch in to feed the hungry in coronavirus lockdown
Mumbai/Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Indian businessman Shishpal Singh was still stirring vegetables and rice at his Mumbai apartment block when migrant workers laid off in the coronavirus lockdown began queueing nearby, desperate for a hot meal. The men had travelled to the western city from the southern state of Tamil Nadu to lay gas pipelines […]
Coronavirus response: With infections linked to religious gatherings, debate rages in US over worship amid pandemic
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on the ongoing debate over church gatherings during the COVID-19 crisis in the US…
As coronavirus death rates multiply, these monks are giving away caskets
RNS They live secluded lives in a stone abbey near a privately owned forest in a rural part of eastern Iowa in the US. But the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey are not closed off from the world’s troubles. Monks make cremation urns at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa. PICTURE: Mark Hirsch Last […]