Australian referendum: How churches are responding to the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament
DAVID ADAMS looks at how Christian churches in Australia are engaging with the upcoming referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament …
Kashmir people vote in local polls amid cold and security
Srinigar, IndiaAP Hundreds of thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Saturday amid tight security and freezing cold temperatures in the first phase of local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status. Nearly six million people across the region’s 20 districts are eligible to elect 280 members of District Development […]
Russians grant Putin right to extend his rule until 2036 in landslide vote
Moscow, RussiaReuters Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that will allow him to run again for president twice, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale. Official results published on Thursday, after 99.9 per cent of ballots had been counted, […]
“Never turning back”, Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville separatists expect vote for independence
Buka, Papua New GuineaReuters Twenty years after combatants snapped arrows to signal the end of hostilities in the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville, voters will on Saturday cast ballots in a long-awaited independence referendum. Prominent separatists say the independence movement cannot be stopped. “Bougainville is never turning back because we paid a very high […]
ESSAY: WHEN AUSTRALIA GOES TO THE POLLS, VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE
Ahead of the yet-to-be-announced federal election in Australia, NILS VON KALM urges Christians to use their vote to impact the lives of others…
MEDICAL MARIJUANA: IN THE US STATE OF OKLAHOMA, BALLOT QUESTION SPLITS PEOPLE OF FAITH
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, of Religion News Service, reports on how a vote on legalising medical marijuana is dividing faith communities in the US state of Oklahoma…