Retired AP photographer Ut gives Pope ‘Napalm Girl’ photo
Vatican City AP Retired Associated Press photographer Nick Ut met Wednesday with Pope Francis and gave him a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young Vietnamese girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack. Ut and Kim Phuc Phan Thi, whose terror the AP photographer captured on 8th June, 1972 during […]
Swapping school for hard labour: Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
MOSABBER HOSSAIN, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that a growing flood of Bangladeshi children are seeing their education end permanently as they flee climate impacts for urban slums…
Inside a Ukraine hospital where medics work as rockets fall
Bakhmut, UkraineReuters The hospital in the small Ukrainian town of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of ambulances bringing the wounded and traumatised from the front line of Europe’s biggest battlefield. Nor did the volunteer paramedics expect, four months ago, to be shuttling back and forth to the front line of a brutal tank […]
Essay: Telling the untold stories of Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, highlights the findings of a recent CSW report on Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico…
Nobel laureate and physicist Wilczek wins Templeton Prize
United StatesAP Frank Wilczek, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author renowned for his boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature, was honoured on Wednesday with this year’s prestigious Templeton Prize, awarded to individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. In a statement, the John Templeton Foundation praised the 70-year-old […]
Postcards: ‘Escape room’ aims to broaden UK cathedral’s appeal
ANGELA YOUNGMAN reports on Hereford Cathedral’s new ‘escape room’ – the first of its kind to be opened in such an institution in the UK…
US annual conferences can’t just leave the United Methodist Church, rules top court
United StatesRNS No, an annual conference in the United States can’t just up and leave the United Methodist Church. At least not yet. While the denomination’s Book of Discipline has provisions for individual churches wishing to leave the United Methodist Church with their properties, there’s nothing within church law that would allow an annual conference […]