Myanmar’s renewed war scatters tens of thousands to forests
Reuters Some camps dotted in the forest have a few dozen people, some more than a thousand. The displaced sleep packed together under plastic sheeting for protection from Myanmar’s monsoon rains. Food is short and there are signs of disease spreading, according to people who have fled recent fighting in eastern Myanmar’s Kayah State – […]
Essay: How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholar BRENDAN SZENDRO outlines why he sees a constitution for Israel as a key to addressing the nation’s political instability…
Lifestory: From street kid to mentor – surviving childhood labour in Ethiopia
With the World Day Against Child Labour having recently been marked across the globe, EMELINE WUILBERCQ, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, records former child-labourer Teklu Haimelo’s story…
Global COVID-19 death toll exceeds four million – Reuters tally
Reuters Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide passed a grim milestone of four million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as many countries struggle to procure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations. While the number of new cases and deaths have abated in countries like the United States and Britain, several nations have vaccine shortages as the […]
Catholic sculptor wishes to restore Catholic credibility amid modern evils
Vatican CityRNS A Catholic sculptor wants to keep the church relevant with his art, but as mounting secularism and the COVID-19 pandemic challenge the institution, the artist claims the devil is in the details. “Today we want to pretend that evil doesn’t exist,” said Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, but Christianity, and Catholicism in particular, “has […]