In the US, Willow Creek announces major layoffs amid post-COVID struggle
United StatesRNS Willow Creek Community Church, a Chicago megachurch that was one of the largest and most highly regarded congregations in the US, will lay off 30 per cent of its staff due to post-COVID-19 declines in attendance and giving. “Willow is about half of the size we were before COVID, which is right in […]
Essay: A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed the hungry, with more used for non-food purposes
In an article first published on The Conversation, DEEPAK RAY, a senior scientist at the University of Minnesota, looks at how increasing amounts of crops are being used for uses other than food and how that’s impacting to push to end global hunger…
Spanish Catholic Church’s internal child abuse investigation of little use, prosecutor says
Madrid, SpainReuters An internal investigation by the Spanish Catholic Church into alleged child sexual abuse by members of the clergy is “partial” and “of little use,” the office of Spain’s national prosecutor wrote in a letter to the country’s ombudsman that was made available to Reuters. The Spanish Catholic Church in January launched diocesan-level inquiries […]
Conversations: Peter Manseau, author of ‘The Maiden Of All Our Desires’
JANA RIESS, of Religion News Service, speaks with Peter Manseau, founding director of the Smithsonian’s Center for the Understanding of Religion in American History and award-winning novelist whose most recent work of fiction is ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’…
Bono and the Pope harmonise on climate change, girls’ education
Rome, ItalyReuters They didn’t sing together but U2 frontman Bono and Pope Francis were in harmony about their concern for the planet and the power of women to change the world when they met in Rome on Thursday. Bono, 62, and the 85-year-Pope shared star billing at an event organised by Scholas Occurrentes, a worldwide […]