Sight-Seeing: If we really believe in equality, we won’t judge anyone
NILS VON KALM writes about the call for Christians to follow the model of Jesus Christ and extend love instead of judgement to others – no matter their failings…
Nevada church presses US Supreme Court on COVID-19 limits
Reno, Nevada, USAP A rural Nevada church wants the US Supreme Court to weigh in on a legal battle over the government’s authority to limit the size of religious gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic even after the church won an appeals court ruling that found Nevada’s restrictions unconstitutional. Attorneys general from 19 other states recently […]
Mexico human trafficking cases stall as coronavirus bites
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation Investigations into human trafficking in Mexico stagnated in 2020 after two years of sharp growth, with activists saying that authorities had struggled to adapt as the crime evolved and recruitment shifted online during the coronavirus pandemic. State authorities launched 551 trafficking cases last year – up one per cent from […]
Ailing Pope, reducing appearances, prays for homeless dead
Vatican CityAP Ailing Pope Francis, who this week is making limited public appearances due to persistent pain, has drawn attention to the plight of homeless people in winter, including a Nigerian man who froze to death near the Vatican. Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for the 46-year-old man named Edwin who he said was […]
Biden attends Mass at DC church where he worshipped as VP ahead of busy first week
Washington DC, US AP President Joe Biden attended Mass for the first time since taking office, worshipping Sunday at the church he frequented when he was Vice President. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, picked Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington’s Georgetown neighbourhood, a few kilometres from the White House. It’s where the nation’s only other Catholic […]
French doctor who made Down discovery closer to sainthood
Rome, ItalyAP The French doctor who discovered the genetic basis of Down syndrome but spent his career advocating against abortion as a result of prenatal diagnosis has taken his first major step to possible sainthood. Pope Francis on Thursday approved the “heroic virtues” of Dr Jerome Lejeune, who lived from 1926-1994 and was particularly esteemed […]
Tables turn as India’s female health workers get COVID jab
Pune, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Jyoti Bhambure is usually the one dispensing medicine – last week she was at the receiving end, among the first in India’s million-strong force of women health workers to win a COVID-19 vaccine. Dressed in a bright green sari with a gold border, Bhambure visited the small, rural hospital in western […]
Alabama pastor Ed Litton, known for racial reconciliation work, joins SBC presidential race
RNS Rev Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor known for his work on racial reconciliation, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer. Litton enters an increasingly crowded field for SBC president, joining Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler, Georgia pastor Mike Stone and Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest […]
Family men or forest destroyers?: Meet the miners living off the Amazon’s gold
LUCAS LANDAU and FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report from Brazil on the Amazon’s illegal “wildcat” miners…