Tokyo Olympics: Faith events look different as COVID spikes – here’s how
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, report on faith outreach initiatives at the Tokyo Olympics…
Organisers show off Olympic village a month before Games begin
Tokyo, JapanReuters Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics opened the athletes’ village to the media on Sunday, showing off apartments and a timber-laced shopping plaza where 11,000 athletes would stay and mingle during the sporting extravaganza. The once-delayed Games are due to start on 23rd July amid concern that the influx of thousands of people from […]
Olympic Games building firm, cult added to Brazil’s slavery ‘dirty list’
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation A company that helped build Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic village for the 2016 Games and a religious group that enslaved hundreds of people were named on Friday to Brazil’s “dirty list”, one of the country’s most powerful anti-slavery tools. The two were among 41 employers added to the roster […]