Church of God in Christ names Detroit’s Bishop J Drew Sheard new presiding bishop
RNS A Detroit bishop of the Church of God in Christ has been named the new presiding bishop of the nation’s largest historically Black Pentecostal denomination. Bishop J Drew Sheard, the husband of Gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard of The Clark Sisters, was elected on Saturday by the COGIC General Assembly, the denomination announced. Bishop […]
Net-zero emissions targets adopted by one-fifth of world’s largest companies
Thomson Reuters Foundation One in five of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly listed companies have now committed to a “net-zero” emissions target to help tackle climate change, researchers said on Tuesday. The companies, representing nearly $US14 trillion in sales, have promised to cut their planet-heating emissions to net zero by mid-century – meaning they will […]
Religious conferences: In the US, planning continues amid COVID-19, socially distant or online
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on how organisers of religious conferences in the US are adapting during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic…
Myanmar military frees hundreds of detained protesters, child victim buried
Reuters Myanmar’s ruling junta on Wednesday freed hundreds of people arrested in its crackdown on protests against the overthrow of the elected government, while businesses in Yangon were shut and streets deserted in a strike called by anti-coup activists. Several buses full of prisoners drove out of Yangon’s Insein Prison in the morning, lawyers and […]
Essay: The US needs an ambassador to the Holy See
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the, at times strained, history of diplomacy between the US and Vatican and who US President Joe Biden might consider as an ambassador to the Holy See…