First nationwide map of Italy’s fascist monuments goes online
Rome, ItalyReuters More than 1,400 monuments, street signs and plaques honouring fascism have been put online in the first nationwide attempt to document the symbols of Benito Mussolini’s regime that still dot the urban landscape of Italy. While Germany systematically scrubbed clean any sign of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime after World War II, Italians took […]
‘Flight shame’ website spells out emissions toll on global climate
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Getting ready to cruise in first class from New York to Beijing? That will be 15.6 square metres of Arctic ice down the drain, thank you. Enjoy your flight. Such statistics detailing the environmental toll wrought by jet setting, or even just business travel, are the stuff of a […]
Bangladesh jobs website aims to curb abuse of migrant workers
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh has launched an online job portal to help reduce high fees incurred by thousands of workers seeking employment abroad and curb exploitative tactics used by unscrupulous brokers. The government-run website was established by the United Nations International Organization for Migration and Bdjobs.com, a local website, and launched on Sunday. A […]
New website hopes to make sermons a vital part of life
RNS Every week, millions of American go to houses of worship to hear a message from a spiritual leader. Most of those congregations are small. And few sermons ever make their way beyond the four walls of a given congregation. Publisher David Murray – a connoisseur of the spoken word – wants to change that […]
US entrepreneur wins award for making government ‘less insulting’
Thomson Reuters Foundation Jennifer Pahlka believes that coding can help deliver a better US Government that works to help reformed felons earn an honest living and public servants frustrated by poor technology. After seeing the challenges working in child welfare, she founded San Francisco-based non profit Code for America in 2009 to create user-friendly websites that make […]
Only about a third of Protestant churches in US offer online giving option, study finds
Only about a third of Protestant churches in the US offer the option to give online, according to new data from LifeWay Research. The US-based research company said a phone survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors showed that only about 30 per cent of their churches offered online giving, up from 14 per cent in 2010. […]
CASTING THE NET: ARCHIVE OF RECORDED CHURCH MUSIC
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CONVERSATIONS: KEN O’ROURKE, CO-CREATOR OF RETIREDBLOKES
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