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YEAR IN REVIEW: 12 STORIES THAT HELPED SHAPE SIGHT’S 2019

2019 events

Sight editor DAVID ADAMS selects 12 key stories that helped shape Sight’s 2019…

12 stories that helped shape Sight’s 2019… 

 

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DAVID ADAMS reports…

 

 

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In an excerpt first published by Religion News Service, DENISE UWIMANA, author of the new book From Red Earth: A Rwandan Story of Healing and Forgiveness, recalls what happened when death came to her town and its aftermath…

  

 

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Following Monday’s fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, answers some key questions about the iconic building… 

 

 

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EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, of Religion News Service, reports on how the ongoing crisis in Venezuela is affecting neighbouring nations and overwhelming Catholic Church efforts to help… 

  

  

Drought1

A crippling drought, described as the “worst in living memory”, continues to affect large swathes of Australia. CHRISTOPHER GILBERT takes a look at how Christian workers are involved in bringing relief to farmers in the states of New South Wales and Queensland… 

 

 

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RANGA SIRILAL and SHIHAR ANEEZ, of Reuters, report…

 

 

Space and faith1

EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, writing for Religion News Service, look at how Earth’s space explorers have expressed their faith in space… 

  

 

Greta Thunberg Canada

MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, looks at the impact of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and her position at the forefront of what he calls ‘Generation Edge’… 

 

 

Hong Kong tear gas

In an article first published by Religion News Service, BOB FU, president of China Aid, together with BYRNNE LAWRENCE look at recent events in Hong Kong and the history of human rights abuses in China… 

 

  

Pope Francis in Nagasaki

CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ reports from the papal tour of Japan… 

 

 

Boris Johnson Downing Street

Reuters’ SARAH YOUNG and ANDY BRUCE, of Reuters, report…

 

 

Impeachment vote Trump at rally

JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, takes a look at the religious overtones surrounding the impeachment of US President Donald Trump… 

 

This story has been updated.

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