“No rights”: Pakistan’s digital ID card keeps millions locked out
WAQAR MUSTAFA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how many adults still don’t have a Computerized National Identity Card, excluding them from jobs and vital public services…
A #toosoon moment? Pope in headdress draws mixed response
Phoenix, United StatesAP It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers fastened in place by a colourful, beaded headband after he apologised for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children. Chief Wilton Littlechild, a residential school survivor himself, […]
Essay: After listening to Indigenous peoples, Pope gives comprehensive apology
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the penitential pilgrimage of Pope Francis should be an example to all church leaders who need to apologise to victims of church leaders and other Christians…
Saints of Past Ages: St Anne
In a special Saints of Past Ages, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, takes a look at St Anne and why she is so important to Indigenous peoples in Canada…
In the US, disgraced pastor Ted Haggard faces new allegations
United StatesRNS Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace in 2006 after a gay sex-and-drug scandal, is now facing some of the same allegations at another church. Haggard, 66, is being accused of using methamphetamine and behaving inappropriately with young men at St James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a church he […]
Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it’s not official yet
Washington DC, USReuters Russia’s new space chief announced on Tuesday his country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but senior NASA officials said Moscow has not formally conveyed an intent to end its two-decade-old orbital partnership with the United States. While heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of […]