Updated: Australian aid agencies welcome increased COVID-19 support for neighbours but urge increased long term giving
Updated: 5:30pm Australian aid agencies and anti-poverty advocates have welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to set aside one-off support of almost $A305 million for the COVID-19 response and recovery in Pacific nations and Timor Leste as part of its Federal Budget but say the amount given to aid foreign nations doesn’t go far enough. Tim […]
“This is our land”: Thai farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle for land rights in Thailand…
US evangelical leaders seek to “take the high road”, stress agreement as election looms
RNS Weeks before Election Day, leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals have reaffirmed their call for Christian engagement in the public square, signing a statement about issues on which they agree. Dozens of leaders highlighted their reaffirmation of a 2004 NAE public policy guide called For the Health of the Nation in a full-page ad […]
Essay: Are Democrats ‘spiritual’ and Republicans ‘religious’? It’s not that simple.
In an article first published on Religion News Service, RYAN BURGE, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, looks at at what a recent survey reveals about the differences between how Democrats and Republicans identify when it comes to issues like religion…