Snapshot: The Freedom Monument, Riga, Latvia
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: Kim Walker Smith returns with ‘Wild Heart’
Kim Walker Smith Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
Most Australian athletes against protest in Olympic competition
Updated: 4.15pm (AEST)Melbourne, AustraliaReuters A vast majority of Australian athletes believe messages of personal or political protest should not be delivered in Olympic competition or on the medallists’ podium, a survey conducted by the country’s athletes’ commission said on Friday. More than 80 per cent of 496 respondents said protesting on the field of play […]
SIGHT AMBASSADORS
Sight Ambassadors is a new church partnership initiative under which we aim to provide resources to churches based around Sight’s content. Every month participating churches – via their designated Sight Ambassador(s) – receive an email with content aimed at resourcing leaders including leadership insights, mission profiles and coverage of justice issues around the world which […]
Record number of women candidates hope to make inroads in Bougainville polls
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation A record number of women candidates are contesting polls in the South Pacific archipelago of Bougainville this month, government officials and analysts said, hoping to build on a “milestone” election for women’s political representation in 2015. The general election is the first since Bougainville, which has a 250,000 population, voted […]
People should not fear spread of COVID-19 in food, packaging – WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain. Two cities in China said they had found traces of the coronavirus in imported frozen chicken wings from Brazil and […]
Child marriage: India’s COVID-19 lockdown threatens efforts to stop spikes
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how coronavirus lockdowns are hindering efforts to stop child marriage…
In the US, Democrats plan interfaith service to kick off convention
RNS Democrats plan to kick off their party convention next week with an interfaith service that officials say is designed to represent diverse faith communities and further the party’s theme that its presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, will “restore the soul of America”. The service is scheduled to convene on Sunday, 16th August, the […]
Essay: Five things Pope Francis should do while imprisoned by the pandemic
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an artcile first published on Religion News Service, looks at five possible ways Pope Francis could be occupying his time while confined to the Vatican during the coronavirus pandemic…
Sight-Seeing: Joseph and the art of pivoting (in a time of pandemic)
Dr JEANNIE TRUDEL, president of Australian-based Christian Heritage College, looks at what the Biblical story of Joseph tells us about how God uses difficult times to shape us…