Virgin of Guadalupe mural, St John and Mary statues vandaled in California Catholic churches
Los Angeles, USRNS A number of Catholic churches in California, from the San Fernando Valley to Sacramento County, have reported vandalism throughout the month of April. A statue of Mary was recently slashed with black paint at St John Vianney parish in the Sacramento County city of Rancho Cordova, according to Catholic News Agency. On […]
Snapshot: The Maldives
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: US hip-hop artist Hulvey makes an impact with ‘Christopher’
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AME Church historical documentary features Mother Emanuel pastor Clementa Pinckney
RNS The African Methodist Episcopal Church has released a short film online about its history that includes an interview with Rev Clementa Pinckney, the pastor killed in a 2015 attack on his South Carolina church, in which he talks about the historically Black denomination’s significance. “Our church and every good AME pastor knows that we’re […]
Kenya tells UN it will shut two camps with 410,000 refugees by June, 2022
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Kenya said on Thursday it had told the United Nations it will shut by June, 2022, two camps holding over 430,000 refugees who fled from wars in the east and Horn of Africa, adding it planned to repatriate some and give others residency. The interior ministry made the announcement on Twitter about five […]
Updated: Dozens killed in stampede at Israeli religious festival
Updated 3.30pm (AEDT)Mount Meron, IsraelReuters At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster”. The crush occurred as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi […]
Switching off?: Right to disconnect gains ground as pandemic brings work home
As many people work remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a renewed push for employees to have the right to disconnect…
Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for government help
Kaduna, NigeriaReuters When Linda Peter last spoke to her daughter, the brief phone call left her relieved the teenager was alive but distraught because she could not pay any ransom demanded. Peter’s 18-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was among 39 students abducted by gunmen on 11th March from a forestry college in the north-western Nigerian state of […]
Essay: Britain’s changing religious vote – why Catholics are leaving Labour and Conservatives are hoovering up Christian support
STUART FOX and EKATERINA KOLPINSKAYA, authors of ‘Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain‘, write, in an article first published on The Conversation, writes about how the “religious vote” in the UK is being transformed…
Postcards: “End is in sight” – tackling a rare disease in a global pandemic
EMELINE WUILBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Ethiopia on the fight to eradicate Guinea worm from water supplies…