Sight-Seeing: Of terror and testimonies – living through the Derek Chauvin trial
DANTÉ STEWART, in an article which comes via Religion News Service, reflects on the trial that this week has led to a guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd…
Justin Bieber’s Easter surprise EP, ‘Freedom,’ adds to his Jesus-filled chapter
RNS Justin Bieber’s surprise Easter Sunday release, an EP titled Freedom and his most explicitly religious project to date, has raced to the second spot on the iTunes album chart, just two weeks after he released a full album, Justice. Complete with a “3:16” timestamp on the album cover – presumably a nod to the […]
Bieber samples King’s sermons, supports Poor People’s Campaign with new album ‘Justice’
RNS Pop star Justin Bieber tweeted his support on Thursday for the Poor People’s Campaign, the faith-led anti-poverty initiative that was inspired by a campaign Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, started in the ’60s. Bieber listed the campaign, headed by Rev William Barber II and Rev Liz Theoharis, among “organizations that embody what justice looks like in action”, […]
Southern Baptist leaders to weigh in as turmoil over race theory grows
RNS New Orleans pastor Fred Luter, the only Black person to have served as president of the predominantly white Southern Baptist Convention, has added his name to a statement on justice and repentance released Friday. The Justice, Repentance, and the SBC statement comes as Black Baptists and others continue to object to the rejection of “critical race theory”, […]
Essay: What white evangelical Christians can’t see when they see racism
Author and teacher of philosophy JAMES KA SMITH, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at why he believes evangelical Christians in the US prefer reconciliation over justice when it comes to issues of race…
Coronavirus seen delaying justice for Iraqi women displaced by war
Amman, Jordan Thomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Iraqi women forced to flee their homes during war have still not been able to return and now face even longer delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers warned on Monday. A study by the Norwegian Refugee Council found women were 11 per cent more […]
JUSTICE
Notions of finding justice have changed over the centuries. A figure of justice atop London’s Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey. PICTURE: Dun.can (licensed under CC BY 2.0) You would have heard of duels – where men in dispute about the truth, would challenge another to a duel. Likewise judges would sentence people […]
Court battles underline complexity of India’s myriad land laws
BangkokThomson Reuters Foundation Recent court rulings have underlined the complexity of India’s numerous land laws, which have sparked conflicts and made it harder for poor farmers and indigenous people to access justice, analysts and lawyers said. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that indigenous people in Meghalaya state owned their land and its resources, and […]
Justice out of reach for two in three, report says
Updated: 10th July, 2019New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Two in three people lack access to justice – with stateless, enslaved and war-affected people worst hit – according to research released on Monday that showed the challenge of achieving the United Nations’ goal of justice for all. More than five billion people fall into a […]
Sydney conference hears call to “go deeper” with Jesus in search for Biblical justice
Sydney, Australia Even as many students were sleeping last weekend, immigrant sociology majors Annette, from Sierra Leone, and Thuto, from South Africa, were making their way to the Living Justice Conference at Hillsong’s Alexandria Campus in Sydney. “Why do so many people in the developed world disconnect themselves from the issues of justice in the […]