Essay: Former Byzantine churches are being converted to mosques – this threatens Istanbul’s cosmopolitan identity
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics ILAY ROMAIN ORS and TUGBA TANYERI ERDEMIR say converting former Byzantine churches to mosques in Turkey could endanger the cosmopolitan identity of cities like Istanbul…
US state of Ohio passes new law banning officials from closing places of worship
Columbus, OhioAP Houses of worship can’t be shut down by local or state officials, and elections can’t be moved from their prescribed dates, under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Governor Mike DeWine and pushed by fellow Republican lawmakers angered over orders meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. DeWine expressly did not […]
Wow!: Congolese abuse survivors rebuild lives, brick by brick
MALAICKA ADIHE, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Goma…
South Sudanese fighter for women’s voices honoured by US peace group
Thomson Reuters Foundation South Sudanese activist Rita Lopidia was just a child when shells started falling in her hometown of Juba, forcing her and her family to flee the fighting in the 1990s. Her experience with years of civil war and displacement and her campaign for women’s participation in peace negotiations earned her the inaugural […]