US health head Collins steps down having led fight against cancer, COVID
Washington DC, USAP Dr Francis S Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health for 12 years, said Tuesday he is stepping down, capping a career in which he directed crucial research into the human genome and the fight against serious diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and COVID-19. Collins said he was “grateful and proud of […]
Medical charity MSF condemns killing of one of its nurses in Nigeria
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has condemned the killing by unknown gunmen of a nurse it employed in Zamfara in north-west Nigeria, an area at the epicentre of a surge in violent crime in which thousands have been abducted. MSF said nurse Mohammad Hassan, 37, was killed on 2nd October when armed men […]
Bangladesh: For climate migrants, pandemic job cuts fuel “multiple crises”
NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the challenges facing those forced to leave their homes due to the changing climate…
In Brazil, evangelicals are (apparently) breaking up with Bolsonaro
São Paulo, Brazil Once a reliable part of President Jair Bolsonaro’s constituency, evangelical Christians in Brazil – especially Pentecostals and neo-Pentecostals – have been showing lately that they will not give him a blank cheque to do what he pleases, like staging a coup d’état. In fact, it seems to be quite the opposite. If, […]
Essay: Celebrate Facebook’s outage? Many faith communities couldn’t talk at all
In an article first published on Religion News Service, PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, senior adviser for public affairs at US-based Interfaith Youth Core, looks at the impact of Monday’s social media outage on religious communites…