Portuguese town to restore clergy sex abuse billboard after outcry
Lisbon, PortugalReuters A Portuguese town said on Thursday it would reinstall a billboard highlighting sexual abuse by clergy after facing heavy criticism for removing it on the day Pope Francis arrived in the country to attend a massive youth event. Francis landed in Lisbon on Wednesday for the week-long World Youth Day, an event devised […]
“He Gets Us”: $US100 million ad campaign wants to fix Jesus’ image. His followers remain a problem
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, that the ‘He Gets Us’ campaign, which hopes to rescue the message of Jesus from the misdeeds of Christians, will expand in the months leading up to the Super Bowl…
Refugee stories hit Australian billboards for World Vision’s “Big Impact” campaign
Eleven-year-old Yasmin’s life changed completely when her family was forced to flee their home in Syria and start a new life in a refugee settlement. Her new life certainly isn’t easy but, thanks to the aid of World Vision, she not only receives nutritious food (this through a partnership with the UN World Food Programme) […]
Anti-abortion billboards come down in Kenya, but the debate over legalisation continues
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Thirteen billboards with provocative anti-abortion messages have been pulled down, ending a three-month campaign by a local church that divided and scandalized the Kenyan capital. “They have brought down all of them. I am very concerned,” said Apostle Kathy Kageni-Oganga, the pastor of the Sozo Church of God, a Pentecostal church that sponsored the […]
SPACE INVADERS: CELESTIAL BILLBOARDS SPARK DEBATE ABOUT WHO OWNS THE SKY
As UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation reports, to date only the United States and Luxembourg have passed domestic legislation on the commercial exploitation of celestial bodies…
Swedes ditch glitzy Xmas ads to guide homeless to shelter
Thomson Reuters Foundation As freezing temperatures grip the Swedish capital, dozens of downtown billboards have swapped commercial ad content for directions guiding the homeless to their nearest shelter. Stockholm opens emergency shelters when temperatures fall below minus seven degrees Celsius, but information about their location and the backup services on offer often fails to reach […]