Snapshot: Floating market, Bangkok
See FRIDA AGUILAR ESTRADA’s image…
COVID-19 highlights need for companies to protect domestic abuse victims
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The global surge in domestic violence during coronavirus lockdowns highlights the need for companies to do more to protect victims and help them get their lives back on track, experts on the issue said on Thursday. Companies should offer women facing domestic abuse flexible working, extra leave so they can move […]
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Sidewalk Prophets release delayed album
Sidewalk Prophets. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
The preaching politician: ‘Good Trouble’ documentary follows John Lewis from fields of Alabama to halls of Congress
RNS Before he was a Democratic congressman and before he was a civil rights activist, Representative John Lewis preached to the chickens on his family’s farm as a young boy. It’s a story staffers of Lewis can repeat by heart because they’ve heard it so many times. “They would bow their heads; they would shake […]
Turkish court considers status of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia
Ankara, TurkeyAP A state attorney on Thursday recommended that Turkey’s highest administrative court reject a request that Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia, which now serves as museum, be turned back into a mosque, state-run media reported. The 6th century structure was the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral before it was changed into an imperial mosque following the […]
Death of US megachurch pastor Darrin Patrick officially ruled a suicide
RNS Megachurch pastor Darrin Patrick’s cause of death has officially been ruled a suicide, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department. Patrick died on 7th May in Pacific, Missouri, just outside of St Louis. The cause of death was a gunshot wound and the medical examiner ruled it a suicide, Franklin County Sheriff Steve Pelton […]
“Excuses are not enough”: Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress
Associated Press’ SAMUEL PETREQUIN reports on the fight of women to seek compensation after being removed from their families as children in the Belgian Congo…
New mass grave unearthed in Iraq’s north from brutal IS rule
Mosul, IraqAP A human skull, a pair of worn trousers and a shoe were among the remains unearthed from a mass grave discovered this week in northern Iraq, a remnant of the brutal rule of the Islamic State group, Iraqi officials said Thursday. The new mass grave was discovered on Monday in the village of […]
Essay: American exceptionalism needs a reboot
With the US about to mark Independence Day, US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says it’s time to re-evaluate what makes America great…
Wow!: Bangladeshi solar-sharing start-up aims to cut power waste
NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an innovative – and award-winning – energy project in Bangladesh…