Essay: We can’t rebuild the US until we support families
JIM WALLIS, founder of Sojourners, looks at US President Joe Biden’s “transformative” plans addressing the “relief, recovery and rebuilding of American society”…
Kenyan Rastafarians seek to legalise marijuana over doubts of other faith leaders
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Rastafarians have petitioned the Kenyan high court to decriminalise the use of cannabis, claiming that smoking marijuana is part of their religious practice. “We Rastafari, who have been stigmatized and misunderstood, we have come here to say in agreement with the United Nations that the use of cannabis for cultural, spiritual and medicinal […]
Wow!: Drones to digital – How entrepreneurs in Asia, Africa are finding ways to plug COVID health gaps
EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how social enterpreneurs are taking innovative approaches to tackling issues within healthcase systems in developing nations…
Vatican employees criticise pay cuts by Pope Francis as “anti-meritocratic and disincentivising”
Vatican CityRNS When Pope Francis decided to cut the pay of Vatican employees, lay and religious, in late March, it was mostly welcomed as a positive effort to rein in the institution’s struggling finances. But in an unprecedented letter to the pope, some employees said the measures are disproportionate and aggravate already existing systems of […]