Essay: Philanthropists and politicians – religion is not a problem to solve, it’s a partnership opportunity
In an article first published on Religion News Service, MICHAEL WEAR, founder of US-based Public Square Strategies, LLC, and an adviser to PACE’s Faith In/And Democracy initiative, argues for philanthropic organisations to engage in a greater way with faith-based organisations…
Sight-Seeing: The crazy notion of forgiveness
NILS VON KALM looks at the importance – and power – of forgiveness especially in the lives of those who have been deeply hurt…
War and doubts slow COVID-19 vaccination in disputed Yemen city
Taiz, YemenReuters In al-Thawra hospital in the disputed Yemeni city of Taiz, a nurse with no face mask or protective gear inoculates the few people who have shown interest in the COVID-19 vaccine. She picks an AstraZeneca vial from a cooler box, warms it with her hands and invokes the name of god before injecting […]
“We are all the same” – Barcelona church opens doors to Ramadan dinners
Barcelona, SpainReuters With COVID-19 restrictions preventing Barcelona’s Islamic population from celebrating Ramadan at the usual indoor venues, a Catholic church has offered up its open-air cloisters for Muslims to eat and pray together. Every evening between 50 and 60 Muslims, many of them homeless, stream into the centuries-old stone passages of the Santa Anna church, […]