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Rome, Italy
AP
A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details, including the artist's tool marks, that had been hidden under centuries of dust and wax.
Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo said Wednesday that the cleaning of the Bandini
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Months ahead of their planned annual meeting, some Southern Baptist leaders are embracing an unofficial moniker for their gathering and, in some cases, for themselves: Great Commission Baptists.
The name simultaneously distances them from a regional affiliation and focuses on the command of Jesus for his followers
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Amman, Jordan
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Almost six weeks after the Beirut port blast nearly blinded her in one eye, Kawthar Halabi has been unable to return to work as she is still having fragments of glass picked out of her flesh.
After eight days in hospital, more than
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South Sudanese activist Rita Lopidia was just a child when shells started falling in her hometown of Juba, forcing her and her family to flee the fighting in the 1990s.
Her experience with years of civil war and displacement and her campaign for women's
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Rome, Italy
AP
The Vatican responded Wednesday to criticism that the title of Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on the post-COVID world is sexist, saying the document, Fratelli Tutti , ( Brothers All ) in no way excludes women.
In Italian, “fratelli” means brothers but it is also used as the inclusive,
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Uganda is investigating the deaths of 10 refugees and a local teenager in a dispute over water, a government minister said on Wednesday, urging the world to do more to help Africa's biggest refugee host country.
Violence erupted last week after a disagreement
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Governments' failure to recognise the land rights of indigenous communities and their role in protecting biodiversity could lead to more coronavirus-like pandemics, researchers said on Tuesday.
A study of more than 40 countries found many local people's land claims were being ignored, amid
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A quarter of Hong Kong's social enterprises could go out of business by the end of the year, according to a new poll, threatening the jobs of hundreds of employees as the coronavirus pandemic takes a heavy toll on the city's economy.
COVID-19 has exacerbated
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Washington DC, US
RNS
Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the faith-based anti-poverty group the Poor People’s Campaign at a virtual event on Monday evening, telling its members, “I want to be part of your movement.”
The gathering, which operated under the theme 'Voting is power unleashed', focused
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Brazil's so-called dirty list, one of the nation's most powerful weapons against slave labour, is legal and can proceed, the Supreme Court ruled this week.
With the ruling, the list of companies and individuals found by labour inspectors to have
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Brussels, Belgium/San Francisco, US
Reuters
Facebook on Tuesday launched a climate science information centre to elevate credible sources on climate change, as critics question its role in the spread of misinformation on the issue.
Facebook said the project is modelled on its COVID-19 Information Center, and launched a
No race problem here: Despite summer of protests, many practicing Christians in the US remain ambivalent
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As racial tensions have risen in recent months, a new report reveals that some Christians are becoming less motivated to act on racial justice, and an increasing share say there is “definitely” not a race problem in the country.
“Christians generally, and practicing Christians in particular, have
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Giving to congregations has shifted upward after churches closed their buildings earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey shows.
The new State of the Plate research finds that close to two-thirds (64 per cent) of churches across the country reported in August that giving
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New York City, US
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The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
Across the
