Mourners bid farewell to Rayshard Brooks at historic church
Atlanta, USAP Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, used to preach, taking part in a funeral filled with historical echoes and a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before. “Rayshard Brooks is the […]
The battle is not over: Rising infections seen worldwide
Berlin, GermanyAP Renewed lockdown measures in a German region where hundreds of coronavirus cases sprung up at a slaughterhouse and news that the world’s top-ranked tennis player has also been infected provided a stark reminder to Europeans on Tuesday that the pandemic is far from gone. Meanwhile, Britain, which has recorded the most coronavirus-related deaths […]
Funeral for Rayshard Brooks to be held at MLK’s church
Atlanta, USAP Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by a police officer, is to be remembered Tuesday at the church in Atlanta where Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, once preached. The private funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church follows a public viewing held Monday. Rev Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the church and a Democratic candidate […]
StrangeSights: Playing for the plants; ‘baby dragons’ go on show; and, another restoration gone wrong…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Churches call for steps towards peace on the Korean Peninsula
Churches from across the world have joined in calling for steps to be taken towards peace on the Korean Peninsula in a statement released on Monday ahead of the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War this week. In a joint ‘Ecumenical Peace Message’, church ecumenical organisations from across the world called for […]
UN charts new territory with project to track all Myanmar’s forests
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A new five-year project in Myanmar will for the first time document all forests in the South-East Asian nation – including places affected by ethnic tensions – to pinpoint deforestation risks and boost conservation, the United Nations said. The joint Myanmar-Finland project, launched last week with funding of €8 million, […]
Zero-carbon takeaway? Spanish delivery start-up Glovo targets greener future
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation On-demand delivery service Glovo, whose riders with distinctive yellow bags have continued to carry meals, medicine and other goods to city residents under lockdown, said on Monday it will offset all its carbon emissions by the end of 2021. The Barcelona-based company runs an app that lets its users in 22 […]
Freedom
Another huge development in our move towards western democracy was this idea of freedom. Once freedom was only the domain of the rich. The rich owned and ruled others; freedom went with position. PICTURE: Kristina V/Unsplash Christian thinkers began to think through this idea of morality: ‘How can a person be guilty or good before God […]
Spat on and abused: Coronavirus fuels racism against India’s north-easterners
ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
In the US, Poor People’s Campaign stages massive online demonstration
RNS With COVID-19 restrictions preventing an intended in-person rally in Washington DC, at least a million supporters of the Poor People’s Campaign reportedly tuned in on Saturday to watch a mix of live speeches and pre-recorded clips of liberal religious leaders calling for a “moral revolution” and the enactment of a sweeping policy agenda focused […]