Health Insight: Five tips for ventilation to reduce COVID risk at home and work
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARY-LOUISE MCLAWS, professor of epidemiology healthcare infection and infectious diseases control at UNSW in Australia, outlines how good ventilation can help prevent the spread of COVID-19…
Christmas holiday bus attacks in Kenya bring condemnation from Christian and Muslim leaders
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Christians travelling on buses for Christmas holiday close to the border with Somalia have recently become targets of the Somalian militant group, al-Shabaab. According to Christians in the region, traveling has become a risky endeavour, as the militants have seized buses on remote roads. Locals in the mostly Muslim communities in the area […]
India’s ‘invisible’ women hope for recognition at farmers protests
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Legions of women have trekked to India’s capital to join massive protests against agricultural reforms, hoping not only to protect their livelihoods but also win visibility as farmers. About 75 per cent of rural women in India who work full-time are farmers, Oxfam says, with numbers rising as men migrate to […]
Cardinal Pell on Trump, Benedict XVI and a plot against him
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis’ former treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, praised President Donald Trump’s “splendid” Supreme Court appointments and defence of Christian values but questioned his effort to sow doubt in the integrity of the US presidential election. “It’s no small thing to weaken trust in great public institutions,” Pell told reporters Wednesday in launching his […]
Birth on a riverbank: Woman’s ordeal shows risks at US border
NOMAAN MERCHANT, of The Associated Press, reports on the story of one Honduran woman who gave birth while crossing the US-Mexican border as increasing numbers of parents and children make the same journey, driven by violence and poverty in Central America and growing desperation in migrant camps in Mexico…
Record climate disasters in Asia-Pacific push millions to “breaking point”
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Asia-Pacific has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it had responded to 24 climate-linked crises this […]
Essay: Four facts that will change relations between Christians and Jews in the next decade
In an article first published by Religion News Service, Rabbi A JAMES RUDIN, senior interreligious adviser at the American Jewish Committee, looks at what will shape Christian-Jewish relations in the future…