Gunmen abduct three Catholic seminarians in Nigeria’s north-west
Lagos, Nigeria AP Gunmen seized three student priests from a Catholic seminary in Nigeria’s north-west Kaduna state, police and school authorities said Tuesday. The assailants stormed the Christ The King Major Seminary late Monday night and opened fire at the cafeteria where five of the students were sitting after dinner, according to Rev Joseph Hayab, […]
France’s top bishop acknowledges that law takes precedence over confession secrecy
Paris, FranceReuters France’s top bishop said on Tuesday that the secrecy of the confession should not take precedence over French laws on sex crimes against children, reversing his previous position after he was summoned by interior minister Gerald Darmanin. Following publication of a damning report about sexual abuse of children by the clergy, Eric de […]
Fears for their future: New World Heritage Site forest imperils Thai Indigenous people
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Thailand on fears over what the declaration of the Kaeng Krachan National Park as a World Heritage Site could mean for the Indigenous Karen people of Bang Kloi village…
Salaries to remittances: Afghans embrace crypto amid financial chaos
Thomson Reuters Fiundation When Roya Mahboob began paying her staff and freelancers in Afghanistan in bitcoin nearly 10 years ago, little did she know that for some of these women the digital currency would be their ticket out of the country after the fall of Kabul in August. Mahboob, a founder of the non-profit Digital […]
Essay: Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media
In an article first published on The Conversation, KATHY KIELY, journalist turned professor of journalism, says the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists was an important statement…