Shocked by COVID deaths, young Indians rush for life insurance
Bengalaru, BangladeshReuters Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality. “I saw people my own age dying, which prompted me to get life insurance immediately,” says Coutinho, a 24-year-old senior executive at a public […]
Essay: Remembering the missing
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, looks at the stories of some of the thousands of people who have gone missing around the world in connection with their faith…
UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain must scrap a legal loophole allowing child marriage “by the back door”, lawmakers said ahead of the introduction of a bill in parliament on Wednesday to raise the minimum age to 18. They said the current law, which allows marriage at 16 with parental consent, sabotaged girls’ futures and condoned […]
This Life: God will direct your steps
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at what happens when we surrender our plans for our lives to God…
Who is Ed Litton, the new Southern Baptist Convention president?
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS In a hotly contested election decided by just over 500 votes, Alabama pastor Ed Litton was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Litton, the longtime pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, a congregation with 3,900 members, was considered a long shot in the presidential race. Two other candidates – Georgia […]