Essay: Five ways coronavirus is deepening global inequality
In an article first published on The Conversation, KUNAL SEN, director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University, looks at how the coronavirus is widening the gaps between the haves and have-nots…
In the US, 2,500 evangelicals sign pandemic statement warning: Don’t ignore science
RNS Amid some churches’ ongoing defiance of state pandemic safety rules, a group of prominent US evangelicals has signed on to a statement affirming their belief in science and calling on Christians to follow the advice of public health experts. “A Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times” expresses concern for the “politicization of science […]
Wow!: India’s bicycle warriors on a mission to save children from traffickers
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, writing for the Thomspn Reuters Foundation, reports on how a new bicycle scheme spear-headed by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi is seeing children freed from traffickers…
US Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde appeals to ‘better angels’ in Democratic convention prayer
Washington DC, USRNS The Rt Rev Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who criticised President Donald Trump after he held a Bible aloft during a photo op in front St John’s Church near the White House in June, focused her prayer for the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening on a Christian appeal to grace. […]