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- JACK JENKINS
Washington, DC
RNS
Hours before he takes the oath of office Wednesday as president, Joe Biden is reportedly slated to attend a worship service at the Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle, commonly known as St Matthew's, with a bipartisan group of members of Congress and other politicians
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- JACK JENKINS
Washington DC, US
RNS
The Washington National Cathedral will host a virtual iteration of its traditional interfaith worship service the day after Joe Biden's inauguration, with activist and pastor Rev William Barber II preaching the sermon.
The gathering, a long-standing inaugural tradition, will be hosted by Rev Randy
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- ADELLE M BANKS
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- FABIO TEIXEIRA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thomson Reuters Foundation
With hospitals overflowing and oxygen supplies running low, Indigenous leader Joilson Karapana fears a second wave of COVID-19 deaths in the Brazilian city of Manaus could prove even more devastating for his tribal community.
When the coronavirus pandemic swept the Amazon
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The majority of Black church attenders in the US say African Americans generally feel politically powerless, but those worshippers also see Black congregations as a source of comfort and control, a new Barna Group study finds.
Three in four Black church attenders - defined in the study
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- STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and KATE KELLAND
Geneva, Switzerland/London, UK
Reuters
The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency, an independent review panel said on Tuesday.
The panel, set up to investigate
US Secretary of State says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'; trade clause narrowly defeated in UK
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- MATTHEW LEE
Washington DC, US
AP
On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute “crimes against humanity” and a “genocide". The rarely used designation
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Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, gets his first COVID-19 injection. PICTURE: Twitter.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and used social media to urge others to follow suit.
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- TABITA DIELA and BERNADETTE CHRISTINA MUNTHE
Jakarta, Indonesia
Reuters
Indonesia's air accident investigator is still hoping to recover the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet to better understand information obtained from the flight data recorder, an official said on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 plane crashed into the Java
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- SONIA ELKS
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
When British single mother Martha sensed another COVID-19 lockdown was looming, one of her biggest worries was how her three young sons would cope with online schooling again when the family still didn't have a computer.
Martha's children, who are all at primary
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- PRAVEEN MENON
Wellington, New Zealand
Reuters
New Zealand said on Tuesday that it was looking to secure a small batch of COVID-19 vaccines early to protect its high-risk workers, as pressure mounts on the government to vaccinate its population.
A tough lockdown and the geographic advantage of being at the
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Deadly floods across parts of Indonesia are a stark reminder of the climate change risks facing the South-East Asian nation, environmentalists said on Monday, urging the government to be more ambitious in its efforts to cut planet-heating emissions.
South Kalimantan on Borneo island declared a state
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