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- YONAT SHIMRON
For the past 25 years, the number of Americans claiming no religion has steadily ballooned as more and more people quit church, synagogue or mosque and openly acknowledged being a “none.”
The reality is particularly stark when looked at from a generational perspective. If 10 per cent
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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
While the newly elected Pope John Paul II stood before Catholic cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on the 16th October, 1978, half a world away in Argentina a middle-aged priest named Jorge Mario Bergoglio was following the election on the radio of his car.
In
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- DAVID KIRTON and STEPHANIE NEBEHAY
Guangzhou, China/Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
The coronavirus outbreak in China may be over by April, the country's senior medical adviser said on Tuesday, but deaths surpassed 1,000 and the World Health Organization warned of a global threat potentially worse than terrorism.
The world must "wake up and consider this
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- CHRISTINE MURRAY
Mexico City, Mexico
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
In Mexico's Nuevo Laredo city - separated from the United States by the
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
From public transport to cycling, sustainable transport is on course to overtake driving in the world's biggest cities within a decade, according to a study released on Monday.
Private car trips will drop by 10 per cent on average by 2030 to make
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- DAVID STANWAY
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- COLIN PACKHAM
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australia's highest court on Tuesday ruled two Indigenous men cannot be deported even though they were born overseas and never applied for citizenship, in a landmark ruling for the country's first inhabitants.
Australia's conservative government has in recent months moved to deport hundreds of foreigners
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- TOM OSANJO
Nairobi, Kenya
Religion Unplugged
In Western Kenya, a group of atheists want to protect religious freedom.
After a principal suspended 17 Seventh-day Adventist students for refusing to sit for exams held on Saturday, when they observe sabbath, the country’s main association of atheists threatened to
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- EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
What's on pastors' minds? It may not be what you think, according to a report released last week by Barna Group.
A new survey by the California-based Christian research firm found that Protestant pastors are worried less about hot topics like religious liberty than they are
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- MICHELLE NICHOLS
North Korea continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year in breach of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday.
The country also illicitly imported refined petroleum and exported some $US370 million worth of coal with the
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- NITA BHALLA
Nairobi, Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomisers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating a hunger crisis.
Hundreds of millions of the voracious insects
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- JILL SERJEANT
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- RINA CHANDRAN
Bangkok, Thailand
Thomson Reuters Foundation
A court in Bangkok has asked the city's authorities to stop work on a riverside promenade that urban planners and environmentalists said would worsen flooding and uproot hundreds of families dependent on the river to make a living.
The administrative court last Wednesday
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- WINNI ZHOU and DOMINIQUE PATTON
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- RINA CHANDRAN
Guwahati, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Millions of migrants and tribal people in India's north-eastern Assam state could be denied land because of a new definition of the term "Indigenous", land and human rights experts said.
Assam has a long-simmering movement against immigrants and its 2019 land policy,
