Lifestory: Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and “peacemaker in a hostile world”
In an article first published on The Conversation, CAROL SARGENT, of Georgetown University, writes about the life of activist nun Sister Ardeth Platte who died last month at the age of 84…
US election – The top three faith moments in the Harris-Pence vice presidential debate
RNS When the two major-party vice presidential candidates — a Black Baptist with Hindu heritage and a white, “born-again evangelical Catholic” – faced off on Wednesday night, they largely talked past one another (and their moderator). But among their prepared arguments, Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris discussed their differences on faith matters that Americans […]
UK homeless face double winter whammy of COVID-19, deep freeze
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain’s rough sleepers face a double winter whammy of freezing weather and deadly coronavirus, advocates said on Thursday, urging the government to resurrect its emergency pandemic measures and put a roof over every head. In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 18 charities and organisations called for a repeat of […]
Pope commits to clean finances amid scandal in backyard
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis told European anti-money laundering experts Thursday that the Vatican was committed to “clean finance,” as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation in the heart of the Holy See. It is rare for a head of state to meet with the Council of Europe’s Moneyval teams, who make periodic […]
Christian publisher LifeWay inks out-of-court agreement with former CEO Thom Rainer
RNS LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, announced late Tuesday that it had reached an out-of-court agreement with former President and CEO Thom Rainer. The agreement requires Rainer to keep the terms of his noncompete contract he had signed after leaving his position in 2018. Thom Rainer, former president of […]
UN to Bangladesh: do more to end child marriage
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh must do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal of eliminating the crime by 2041, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. “This human rights violation…[is] robbing children of their childhoods,” said Veera Mendonca, a spokeswoman for UNICEF. Children play on a […]
Health Insight: Five ways to increase protein intake as we age
In an article first published on The Conversation, KATHERINE APPLETON and EMMY VAN DEN HEUVEL, of Bournemouth University, look at how we can ensure we’re getting enough protein in our later years…
Climate-menaced nations say survival depends on stronger 2020 action
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Developing countries at risk from wilder weather and rising seas on Wednesday urged all governments to meet a deadline to deliver stronger national climate action plans to the United Nations by the end of 2020, stressing that their survival depended on it. About 195 nations committed under the 2015 Paris Agreement […]
A surge of over 100 COVID-19 cases linked to evangelical Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry
RNS A recent COVID-19 spike in Northern California’s Shasta County has been partly attributed to the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, a school operated by the Pentecostal megachurch Bethel in the city of Redding. Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency connected 123 cases to the school over the past two weeks, Tim Mapes, a […]
Pakistani Christian who spent six years on death row acquitted of blasphemy
A Christian man who spent the last six years on death row in Pakistan after being convicted of blasphemy charges has been acquitted by the High Court. Sawan Masih, a 40-year-old Catholic father of three, was convicted and given the death sentence in March, 2014, after a Muslim man accused him of blaspheming against Islam’s […]