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Already facing threats including COVID-19 and an economic crisis, Beirut’s devastating explosion couldn’t have come at a worse time, says World Vision staffer
Already facing multiple challenges, the massive explosion which blew apart Beirut’s port district this week couldn’t have come at a worse time for the city, according to Ralph Yaacoub, a World Vision staffer based in the city. Speaking from Beirut on Friday, Ralph Yaacoub, deputy area manager of Beirut and Mount Lebanon for World Vision, […]
UK colonialist Rhodes has fallen in his home town as museum changes its name
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A museum and art centre in the house where 19th century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes was born is changing its name after protests from anti-racism campaigners. The Rhodes Art Complex will become South Mill Arts on 24th August, following calls to stop glorifying an imperialist who annexed swathes of southern Africa […]
Wear a face mask? Many in the US say no, while in Latin America most say yes
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation COVID-19 infection rates are surging in parts of the United States but Americans are much less likely to wear face masks compared with other regions like Latin America. Why? A survey of 169,000 people in over 100 countries by US-based data company Premise found widely different attitudes to mask wearing across […]
Heatwave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Giving heatwaves names and strength ratings, as for hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said this week. “People do not understand this risk and we need to […]
Rescue of 35 child workers triggers probe in India’s garment factory hub
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to tackle child labour in garment factories in southern India are being ramped up after the rescue of 35 children from a spinning mill, officials said on Thursday, amid concerns of an increase in trafficking as coronavirus restrictions are eased. In one of the first cases of child labour reported […]
Church v state: US pastor John MacArthur believes the Bible trumps COVID-19 public health orders. Legal scholars say no
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, takes an closer look at the battle over church reopenings in the US state of California…
Biden quotes Bible at Black church meeting, while Trump says his rival is “against God”
RNS On Thursday afternoon, US President Donald Trump declared in Cleveland that his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, would create an America with “no religion” if elected, adding that Biden would “hurt the Bible, hurt God” because “he’s against God.” Yet Biden spent that same morning invoking Scripture while speaking directly to religious […]
Essay: Pompeo’s plan for a hierarchy of human rights could serve to undermine them all – including religious freedom
In an article first published on The Conversation, SHELLEY INGLIS, executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, sounds a warning over US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s proposed hierarchy of human rights…
Macron says aid to blast-stricken Lebanon will not go to ‘corrupt hands’
Beirut, LebanonReuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday promised aid to Lebanon but reassured angry citizens reeling from a blast that killed 145 people that no blank cheques will be given to its leaders unless they enact reforms and end rife corruption. Speaking at a news conference at the end of a dramatic visit to […]