COVID-19 in Tanzania: Amid deadly resurgence, officials maintain they can pray the “coronavirus devil” away
TONNY ONYULO, writing for Religion News Service, reports from Tanzania, on how religious leaders and government officials are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Chaldean Christians in the US, delighted with Pope’s visit, say it comes too late
RNS A group of Chaldean women, sitting around a kitchen table in Michigan on Sunday, watched on Arabic satellite TV as Pope Francis set foot in their ancestral land on the last full day of his historic papal visit to Iraq. “It’s like Easter,” said one woman. Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, […]
Essay: Seven ways a national COVID-19 day of mourning can help us heal
JAMIE ATEN and KENT ANNAN, of the Humanitarian Diasster Institute at Wheaton College in the US, writing against the backdrop of the first anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, look at the importance of publicly marking the anniversaries of disasters and tragedies…