For one LA Catholic church, meeting indoors is “historic” after wave of COVID-19 deaths
San Gabriel, CaliforniaRNS On Sunday, before Mass had even begun, St Anthony Catholic Church’s parishioners broke into applause. It was the first time the congregation in this city east of Los Angeles had gathered inside their sanctuary for Sunday Mass, and they were eager and excited to get started – at full capacity and without […]
Essay: We need a better strategy to plant Black and brown churches
US pastors and church planting network founders THABITI ANYABWILE and JOHN ONWUCHEKWA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, argue that Black and brown communities need the freedom to plant churches responsive to their own contexts and needs…
Postcards: Yemen’s famed beekeepers feel the sting of climate change
MAYA GEBEILY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how bee-keepers in war-torn Yemen are facing growing threats from the impacts of climate change…
UN experts call on Holy See to do more against child abuse
Geneva, SwitzerlandAP Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have urged the Vatican to do more to stop and prevent violence and sexual abuse against children, citing “persistent allegations of obstruction and lack of cooperation” from the Catholic Church, the UN human rights office said. The four experts, in a letter dated 7th […]
Ethiopians vote as opposition alleges some irregularities
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he hoped Ethiopia’s national and regional elections on Monday would prove the success of democratic reforms, but an opposition boycott, war, ethnic violence and logistical challenges overshadowed the vote in some regions. Authorities were unable to hold elections in four of Ethiopia’s 10 regions, said election board […]