Africa’s miners face new TB threat as pandemic disrupts treatment
Ermelo, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis due to skipping treatment under lockdown. In just four months, it happened 60 times. When COVID-19 shut South Africa’s mines, workers from Jele’s homeland eSwatini and other neighbouring nations rushed […]
In US, North Carolina Pentecostal church ordered to close after coronavirus outbreak
RNS A Charlotte, North Carolina, church was declared an “imminent hazard” and ordered closed until 6th November after an outbreak of COVID-19 led to more than 121 cases and at least three deaths. The closure took effect Saturday. The abatement order from the state’s health director, Gibbie Harris, was issued for the United House of Prayer for […]
Medicine not chainsaws: Indonesian clinic keeps villagers and forests healthy
Thomson Reuters Foundation Offering affordable healthcare to villagers and Indigenous communities living near forests could help reduce illegal logging and fight climate change, researchers said on Monday. A new study led by Stanford University analysed a clinic providing such a service, set up by two non-profits adjacent to Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan […]
Tides
I quite vividly remember my first experience of tides. PICTURE: Daiga Ellaby/Unsplash I was staying on Queensland’s Daydream Island as a child. I built a sandcastle on the beach and proudly put a new toy I had found in a cereal box on top. We have to go up for lunch, but I noted where […]
US election: ‘Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden’ signers face a fiery blowback
MARK I PINSKY, writing for Religion News Services, reports on the price some US pastors are paying for breaking away from supporting the Republican Party…
Updated: Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as US Supreme Court justice in partisan vote
Updated: 3pm (AEDT)Washington DC, USAP Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the US Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come. Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy of the late liberal […]
Essay: With nine new electors, Pope Francis remakes the college of cardinals
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how Pope Francis has “remade the college of cardinals”…