Good Friday: Remembering Christ’s sacrifice
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Grow your own: urban farming flourishes in coronavirus lockdowns
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Coronavirus lockdowns are pushing more city dwellers to grow fruit and vegetables in their homes, providing a potentially lasting boost to urban farming, architects and food experts said on Tuesday. Confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, total almost 1.5 million, with about 88,500 deaths worldwide, according to […]
On the Screen: Five films about Jesus you should watch this Easter
In an article first published by Religion Unplugged, CLEMENTE LISI looks at five films to watch this Easter…
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Christian music’s Sixties origins
The Joystrings. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Speed of coronavirus deaths shock doctors as New York toll hits new high
New York City, USReuters New York state, epicenter of America’s coronavirus crisis, set another single-day record of COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as veteran doctors and nurses voiced astonishment at the speed with which patients were deteriorating and dying. The number of known coronavirus infections in New York state alone approached 150,000 on Wednesday, even as […]
Spain asks illegal migrants and jobless to pick fruit as coronavirus bites
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Spain will temporarily allow thousands of illegal migrants to pick fruit to address labour shortages caused by the new coronavirus outbreak, in a move closely watched across Europe. The European Union’s biggest fruit and vegetable exporter will also allow unemployed Spaniards to continue to receive state benefits while working as fruit […]
“Double whammy”: Climate stress and coronavirus gang up on world’s vulnerable
THIN LEI WIN and MICHAEL TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
South Pacific cyclone and coronavirus create “perfect storm” of worry
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As deadly Cyclone Harold churns through the South Pacific, small island nations in its path are struggling to balance responses to the disaster with maintaining efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, officials warned Wednesday. Cyclone Harold ripped through Vanuatu and Fiji as a deadly top-strength storm this week, […]
Essay: Five ways coronavirus lockdowns increase inequality
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK social scientist ISAAC T TABNER, writing in the UK context, looks at how coronavirus outbreak could result in greater inequality…
Sight-Seeing: This year Easter will feel more like Passover
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev STEPHEN B CHAPMAN, associate professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, looks at how the story of Exodus might resonate with Christians this Easter…