Brazil’s anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation After rescuing two Bolivian women held as slaves in a home in Sao Paulo last year and recouping the wages they were owed, officials faced an unexpected problem: there was too much money. The abusive employer – who recruited the women from a human trafficker then forced them to […]
Rush Limbaugh, who shaped conservative Christian politics on the radio, has died
RNS Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic and popular radio host who shaped conservative politics for decades, has died. Limbaugh, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020, was 70. This 5th November, 2018 file photo shows radio personality Rush Limbaugh introducing President Donald Trump at the start of a campaign rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Limbaugh, the talk radio […]
The Interview: Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity and author of ‘In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit’…
Big on ideas, short on cash: Modern slavery fund seeks to transform global fight
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As the new chief executive of the four-year-old Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, Alex Thier has an ambitious goal – raise enough money to make human trafficking unprofitable. Hailed as a disruptive innovator at its birth – with backing from the US and British governments – the public-private partnership aimed […]
Essay: Biden signals willingness to dialogue with bishops and other faith leaders
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the recent Biden administration announcement surrounding the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the role of its new head, Melissa Rogers…