In the US, Southwestern Baptist adjunct professor, wife, struck and killed by drag racer
RNS A Baptist professor and his wife were killed in a fiery collision with an alleged drag racer on Friday morning. According to news reports, Ben Arbour and his wife, Meg, were driving home from a date early Friday morning when a car that was racing on Risinger Road in Fort Worth struck their vehicle. Ben […]
US Housing Secretary – and prominent Seventh Day Adventist, Ben Carson, tests positive for coronavirus
Washington DC, USRNS Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a prominent Seventh Day Adventist, has tested positive for COVID-19. News that Carson, who belongs to a faith tradition that stresses health, has tested positive for the virus was revealed by a HUD spokesperson on Monday. The diagnosis comes less than a […]
Revealing
It’s obvious in our current social media world that we have a problem with trolls. But if trolls knew a little bit more, perhaps they wouldn’t be trolls. PICTURE: Camilio Jimenez/Unsplash For a start, many employers these days check out your social media feeds before employing people. Are you employable? ‘That’s OK, I do my trolling […]
“I just want to get out”: Ethiopian girls trapped in sex trade as COVID-19 deepens desperation
EMELINE WUILBERCQ, writing for Thomson Reutrers Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic has trapped girls in Ethiopia, many of them underage, in the sex trade…
Explainer – Can vaccines reach the world’s poorest?
Thomson Reuters Foundation Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people and infected 50 million. Drugmakers around the globe have been racing to develop vaccines against COVID-19, but organisations such as […]
Essay: Once feared as Vatican meddling, Catholic ideas could help America move forward
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says a “truly Catholic agenda” could help the US in a “time of division, pandemic, racism and global warming”…