This Christmas, US churches are preparing for a frenzy of festivity
RNS A few hours after the Washington National Cathedral posted on Facebook on 29th November that admission to its Christmas family service and Advent concerts this year would require a $US7 ticket, the cathedral backed down in the face of the ire of its own parishioners and apologised for its decision. In a statement on […]
Syrians to lose WFP food assistance in January
Amman, JordanReuters Food assistance across Syria will end in January due to a funding crunch that had already curtailed its aid program in the war devastated country, the World Food Programme said on Monday. The organisation said a record level of humanitarian needs globally meant its donors are unable to provide the same level of […]
Temperatures in Siberia dip to minus 56 Celsius as record snow blankets Moscow
Moscow, RussiaReuters Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 56 degrees Celsius on Monday while blizzards blanketed Moscow in record snowfall and disrupted flights as winter weather swept across Russia. In the Sakha Republic, located in the north-eastern part of Siberia and home to Yakutsk, one of the world’s coldest cities, temperatures fell below […]
UK’s Cleverly to sign new asylum treaty with Rwanda
Reuters British Home Secretary James Cleverly will sign a new treaty with Rwanda on Tuesday over its asylum plan after the UK’s top court declared the deportation scheme unlawful, the British Home Office said on Monday. Cleverly will arrive in Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Tuesday morning and meet with the country’s foreign minister, Vincent Biruta, […]
Men and women
The male treatment of women has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and sometimes the church has been complicit in that. PICTURE: Tim Mossholder/Unsplash The Bible starts and finishes it’s discussion of males and females like this… “So God created humanity in his own image, in the image of God he created […]
Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high in 2023 – report
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme weather, scientists said. The Global Carbon Budget report, published on Tuesday during the COP28 climate summit, said that overall CO2 emissions, which reached a record high […]
Responding to abuse: In the US, the Episcopal Church reckons with tangled protocol on clergy abuse and accountability
As the denomination evaluates its Title IV clergy misconduct policy, abuse survivors say the process needs to be trauma-informed. KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports…
Karabakh refugees in Armenia face uncertainty and poverty in exile
Masis, Armenia Reuters For the third time in her life, Elada Sargsyan is a refugee. Born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Sargsyan fled her hometown in 1988, aged 19, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Elada Sargsyan, 54, a refugee from Nagorno-Karbakh region, poses for a picture in a disused kindergarten, where she […]
Essay: Sharpeville – new research on 1960 South African massacre shows the number of dead and injured was massively undercounted
NANCY L CLARK and WILLIAM H WORGER, in an artcile first published on The Conversation, reveal what their new research found…