Grim winter looms as wartime Ukraine braces for infrastructure attacks
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters In an abandoned tower block damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine’s second city, Olga Kobzar plans to tough out winter for as long as she can without electricity, water and central heating by lighting the gas stove in her kitchen for warmth. The 70-year-old, who lives alone in a devastated district of […]
In the US, United Methodists’ Native American International Caucus calls for end to Columbus Day
United StatesRNS The Native American International Caucus, which advocates for Native Americans both inside and outside of the United Methodist Church, is calling on lawmakers to get rid of Columbus Day. To replace the federal holiday, which this year falls on 10th October, the caucus is asking Congress to approve several bills formalising Indigenous Peoples Day as a […]
In El Salvador, rising inmate numbers threaten humanitarian crisis: NGO
San Salvador, El SalvadorReuters Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s war against the country’s criminal gangs could generate prison overcrowding and even a violent reaction from criminals, said a report by the NGO International Crisis Group released Tuesday. After a historic rise in homicides in March, Bukele asked Congress to authorise a state of exception, which suspends […]
Hope amid disaster: Hurricane Ian shakes south-west Florida’s faith but can’t destroy it
BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and ROBERT BUMSTED, of Associated Press, report from Florida…
Northern Kenya faces hunger crisis as drought wipes out livestock
Lodwar, Kenya Reuters In a dry river bed in Kenya’s arid north-west, pastoralists dig ever-deeper pits in an anxious search for water, as the region suffers its worst drought in 40 years, which has wiped out livestock and crops, deepening a hunger crisis. For the last four rainy seasons the annual rains have failed across […]
Essay: Defending our sacred right to vote
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Revs BARBARA WILLIAMS-SKINNER and Rev JIM WALLIS, of Faiths United to Save Democracy, together with ADAM TAYLOR, write about why 2,000 poll chaplains are being mobilised ahead of the US-midterm elections…