In Brazil’s Amazon, Indigenous people fear surge in COVID-19 deaths
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation With hospitals overflowing and oxygen supplies running low, Indigenous leader Joilson Karapana fears a second wave of COVID-19 deaths in the Brazilian city of Manaus could prove even more devastating for his tribal community. When the coronavirus pandemic swept the Amazon metropolis last year, several of Karapana’s close relatives […]
Sight-Seeing: Finding faith in a time of bone-deep weariness
RICHARD KINGSLEY THOMAS, a pastor in London, reflects on the importance of faith at a time when weariness threatens to overcome…
Black US churchgoers report powerlessness in politics, agency in Black congregations
RNS The majority of Black church attenders in the US say African Americans generally feel politically powerless, but those worshippers also see Black congregations as a source of comfort and control, a new Barna Group study finds. Three in four Black church attenders – defined in the study as African Americans who attend a majority […]
Pandemic could be WHO’s Chernobyl moment for reform – review panel
Geneva, Switzerland/London, UKReuters The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency, an independent review panel said on Tuesday. The panel, set up to investigate the global response to the coronavirus, said the […]
US Secretary of State says China’s policies on Muslims amount to ‘genocide’; trade clause narrowly defeated in UK
Washington DC, USAP On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute “crimes against humanity” and a “genocide”. The rarely used designation is sure to provoke an angry response from […]
Archbishop of Canterbury receives COVID-19 vaccine, urges others to do the same
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, gets his first COVID-19 injection. PICTURE: Twitter. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and used social media to urge others to follow suit. In a statement posted on his Twitter account along with a picture of him receiving the injection, the […]
Indonesia air crash investigator hopes for recovery of cockpit voice recorder
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesia’s air accident investigator is still hoping to recover the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to better understand information obtained from the flight data recorder, an official said on Tuesday. The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on 9th […]
Unwanted tech helps bridge ‘digital divide’ in lockdown Britain
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation When British single mother Martha sensed another COVID-19 lockdown was looming, one of her biggest worries was how her three young sons would cope with online schooling again when the family still didn’t have a computer. Martha’s children, who are all at primary school in London, struggled during the first round […]
New Zealand looks to secure small batch of vaccines early as pressure mounts
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand said on Tuesday that it was looking to secure a small batch of COVID-19 vaccines early to protect its high-risk workers, as pressure mounts on the government to vaccinate its population. A tough lockdown and the geographic advantage of being at the bottom of the world helped New Zealand virtually […]
As floods hit Borneo, Indonesia urged to boost climate action under Paris accord
Thomson Reuters Foundation Deadly floods across parts of Indonesia are a stark reminder of the climate change risks facing the South-East Asian nation, environmentalists said on Monday, urging the government to be more ambitious in its efforts to cut planet-heating emissions. South Kalimantan on Borneo island declared a state of emergency last week, after heavy rainfall and […]