Why ‘sorcery’ was the fastest-growing search term on Bible Gateway in 2021
RNS The topics people search for each year on Bible Gateway are always interesting, according to Jonathan Petersen, content manager of the website. But this year’s may be the “most intriguing,” Petersen wrote on the site. Searching “sorcery” on BibleGateway.com. PICTURE: RNS/Kit Doyle Searches for the words “sorcery” and “sorceries” saw the biggest spike, increasing 193 per cent over […]
Norway’s “threadbare” Christmas tree present underwhelms some in Britain
London, UK Reuters Norway’s annual Christmas tree gift to London provoked unseasonably abrupt responses on Thursday, including demands that the 24-metre Norwegian spruce be replaced, after it appeared to be less than symmetrical with some broken branches. Every year, a tree is felled outside Oslo and sent to London’s Trafalgar Square as an offering of […]
Digital rights: AI vigilantes fuel censorship fears in Russian cyberspace
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Russia is increasingly using AI to police the web…
Bolsonaro’s “terribly evangelical justice” confirmed to Brazil’s Supreme Court
São Paulo, Brazil After more than four months waiting for his confirmation hearing in the Senate, lawyer and Presbyterian minister André Mendonça was finally approved on 1st December as Brazil’s new Supreme Court justice. Formerly President Jair Bolsonaro’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mendonça was seen by most Evangelical Protestants as somebody who could represent […]
Essay: Most US school shooters get their guns from home – and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up
US experts on firearm violence and firearm injury prevention, PATRICK CARTER, MARC A ZIMMERMAN and REBECCAH SOKOL look at the relationship between school shootings and the access of teenagers to firearms in the home…