On his way to prison, US Catholic activist advocates for COVID-19 prisoner release
US RNS On Thursday, Patrick O’Neill will report to the Federal Correctional Institution near Elkton, Ohio, to serve a 14-month sentence for breaking into a nuclear submarine base as part of a symbolic nuclear disarmament action he took up with six other Catholic pacifists more than two years ago. But on his way to prison, O’Neill […]
Tokyo Games chief expects decision by March on allowing spectators
Tokyo, JapanReuters Organisers of the postponed Tokyo Olympics should decide in February or March whether the coronavirus risks have fallen enough to let spectators attend the Games in July, the head of the organising committee said on Tuesday. The Japanese Government and the International Olympic Committee made the decision last March to postpone the 2020 […]
Fighting COVID: Samaritan’s Purse field hospitals much in demand as US coronavirus case counts rise
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from North Carolina where Samaritan’s Purse have set up a field hospital in response to the growing coronavirus crisis in the US…
US Supreme Court wrestles with Georgia college free speech case
Washington DC, USAP The US Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with whether to revive a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus. The school, Georgia Gwinnett College, has since changed its policies and the student has graduated. A lower court dismissed the […]
Essay: Health crisis – up to a billion tonnes of waste potentially burned in the open every year
In an article first published on The Conversation, COSTAS VELIS and ED COOK, of the University of Leeds, write about why burning waste is such a health hazard around the world…