“Favorable conditions”: Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land
FABIO ZUKER, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, by carving massive holes in the earth and disrupting local ecosystems, illegal gold miners in the Amazon create the perfect breeding conditions for the mosquito-transmitted disease…
Exhausted volunteers run low on supplies as Ukraine refugee crisis drags on
Medyka/Boratyn, Poland Reuters Five weeks after the start of the fighting in Ukraine, Kamil Prusinowski and his small band of volunteers are exhausted at their refugee shelter over the border in Poland. Supplies, funding and energy are all running low, Prusinowski said in a room filled with children’s toys, stuffed animals and footballs in the […]
Essay: America is exceptional – in its addiction to violence and war
US activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians SHANE CLAIBORNE says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that while it’s been 55 years since Martin Luther King’s historic speech, ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,’ it still rings out as true as ever…
Wow!: In Zimbabwe, a women-only gem mine gives abuse survivors new hope
FARAI SHAWN MATIASHE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how workers at Africa’s first all-female mine say their jobs have given them a fresh start and financial independence…
Suspected Islamists kill 21 civilians in eastern Congo
Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 21 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local human rights group and a witness said on Monday. The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR alongside the Government of Uganda and humanitarian partners, is assisting some 10,000 […]
After Pope’s apology, Canada’s Indigenous survivors want compensation, records
Toronto, Canada Reuters Pope Francis’s long-awaited apology to Canada’s Indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and Indigenous leaders said. Canada’s state-sanctioned schools forcibly separated about […]