As COVID-19 sweeps rural India, sick struggle to access healthcare
Chennai/Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60 kilometres from his home in India’s eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the centre of the nation’s devastating COVID-19 crisis. His death last week followed a frantic journey and dozens of […]
Essay: Politicising Biden’s faith is pastoral malpractice
JOHN GEHRING, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, writes – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that deploying Communion as a bludgeon to selectively sanction elected officials on a single issue is not the answer…
Some 200 rights groups push for UN arms embargo on Myanmar
New York City, USReuters More than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help protect civilians peacefully protesting a military coup. Since the military seized power on 1st February and ousted an elected government led […]
In the US, National Day of Prayer to be marked with petitions for racial justice
RNS In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many observances of the annual National Day of Prayer to go virtual, with a focus on praying for those who were sickened or died. A year later, as the 70th observance occurs on Thursday, pandemic prayers continue and, in some cases, are being coupled with petitions for racial […]