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People who identify as highly spiritual are more likely to say it’s important to make a difference in their communities and contribute to the greater good, a broad new study on American spirituality finds.
The study, “What Does Spirituality Mean to Us?,” found that 86 per
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Global Christian organisations have joined in calling for a more compassionate approach to the treatment of migrants and refugees in Europe, saying that a recent fire at the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos - which housed more than 12,500 people - had highlighted "longstanding shortcomings of
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Mumbai, India
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India's parliament on Wednesday passed "historic" labour laws that the government says help workers and business alike, but activists fear a loss of labour rights in a push for profits.
Experts said the laws - aimed at protecting workers and streamlining labyrinthine regulation
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- BYRON KAYE
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
The majority of a 470-strong pod of pilot whales found stranded off Australia's remote southern coast has died, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers struggled in freezing waters and fading light to free those still alive.
The group, which is the biggest beaching in the
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- NITA BHALLA
Nairobi, Kenya
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Kenya's parliament will launch a legal challenge to a bid by the country's top judge to dissolve both legislative houses for not having enough women lawmakers, the speaker said on Tuesday, calling the move ill-advised, premature and unlawful.
Chief Justice David Maraga on
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- LAURENCE FROST
Paris, France
Reuters
Global airlines on Tuesday called for pre-departure COVID-19 testing for all international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump.
Rapid and affordable antigen tests that can be administered by non-medical staff are expected to become available in "coming weeks" and
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A Hong Kong court's decision to uphold a compulsory rule for migrant domestic workers to live with their employers drew criticism on Tuesday from labour rights advocates, who said it exposed foreign maids to conditions akin to modern slavery.
The live-in rule for Hong Kong's
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In his first meeting as leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, Rev Rolland Slade called on other committee members on Tuesday to be responsible “to shepherd and to protect” survivors of church sex abuse.
Slade, senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California,
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London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Government departments and other public bodies in Britain will have to take action to ensure their suppliers do not engage in modern slavery under measures announced on Tuesday.
Britain said public-sector organisations with a budget of more than £36 million, including local authorities,
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- MICHELLE NICHOLS and STEVE HOLLAND
New York City, US
Reuters
US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having "unleashed" COVID-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse him of "lies" and abusing the UN platform to provoke confrontation.
China's President Xi
