Britain urged to enshrine paid leave post-miscarriage
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain should change the law so all working parents who miscarry get paid leave, pressure groups said on Thursday, after a clutch of companies began offering their staff time off after a lost pregnancy. An estimated one in eight pregnancies ends in miscarriage – most in the first trimester – but […]
Snapshot: Roy’s Peak, South Island, New Zealand
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Soundbite – The TCM Update: TobyMac shows the power of collaborations
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“It’s all a lie”: hesitancy hampers vaccine drive in war-scarred Syrian area
Idlib, SyriaReuters In north-west Syria, where healthcare is rudimentary and those displaced by war are packed into squalid camps, the arrival of vaccines to fight COVID-19 should have been cause for relief. Instead, a UN-backed vaccination campaign has met with suspicion and mistrust by an exhausted population who feel betrayed by their government and abandoned […]
Black Brazilians protest racism, police violence
Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters Black Brazilians demonstrated in the country’s two largest cities on Thursday to protest against racism and police violence toward their communities in a local version of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with some accusing the country’s president of genocide. They were also protesting what they called […]
Over a quarter of EU adults would refuse COVID-19 shot, survey says
Brussels, BelgiumReuters More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a survey published on Thursday showed. The results also suggested a strong link between vaccine hesitancy and the use of social media, particularly where social media is the main […]
“An abrupt halt”: Christian mission and aid organisations in Uganda revise approach in the midst of a pandemic
JOHN SEMAKULA reports from Kampala on how mission organisations have weathered the coronavirus pandemic in Uganda…
Afghan girls torn between fears and ambitions after school attack
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Amina was one of the hardest-working girls in her class at Sayed Ul-Shuhada High School in west Kabul, her best friend remembers, determined to become a doctor to treat Afghanistan’s thousands of war victims. Amina became a victim herself on Saturday, killed in a massive bomb blast as she and dozens of girls […]
Essay: It’s time for our Catholic president to address the church’s sexual abuse scandal
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DAVID CLOHESSY, an abuse survivor and former national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), says it’s time for national action in the US with regard to the child sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church…
Conversations: Rev Bill Crews on pivotal moments, who Jesus is to him, and the Dalai Lama
Named one of Australia’s 100 most influential people, Rev Bill Crews has recently co-written a memoir of his life, ‘Twelve Rules For Living A Better Life’. He speaks with DAVID ADAMS about two pivotal moments in his life, who Jesus is to him, and his relationship with the Dalai Lama…