Essay: Fear, shame and losing sleep – why young adults are struggling during the pandemic
EMMA JACKSON, director for Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Scotland, says more work is needed to address the stigma and shame that still exists around debt, especially for young adults during the “exceptionally hard” situation in which they now live…
One in six Australian 15 to 19 year-olds report experiencing homelessness – report
One in six Australian adolescents have reported experiencing homelessness at least once, according to the findings of a Mission Australia report. Released with a warning that homelessness among young Australians may climb even further without greater action to address the issue, the report, Staying home: A Youth Survey report on young people’s experience of homelessness, found […]
Battling misinformation: Armed with social media, Zimbabwean youth fight coronavirus ‘infodemic’
KIM HARRISBERG and LUNGELO NDHLOVU, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how Zimbabwean youth are countering misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic…
WHO message to youth on coronavirus: “You are not invincible”
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization said on Friday. With more than 210,000 cases reported worldwide and a death toll of 9,000, each day brings a “new and tragic milestone”, WHO […]
POSTCARDS: US TEEN POETS FIND NO RHYME OR REASON TO CLIMATE PERIL
SEBASTIEN MALO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from New York City…
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY: YOUTHFUL SELF-RESPECT
BRUCE C WEARNE looks at a passage in I Timothy in which Paul urges the youthful Timothy to be an “example” to others…
Too young to vote, children strike, protest and sue for climate action
Thomson Reuters Foundation Skipping school, marching on the streets and suing governments, children who are too young to vote are demanding more action on climate change, as world leaders gather at a major UN summit in Poland this week. “We will be the main victims of climate change. It will be our generation who suffer […]
Young Ethiopian Christians “bribed” to convert to Islam, says charity
World Watch Monitor Young Ethiopian Christians are bribed with jobs and education prospects if they convert to Islam, according to the UK-based charity Aid to the Church in Need. A Christian religious leader who wished to remain anonymous told ACN that Christians who are poor were especially targeted. Most Christians in Ethiopia belong to the Ethiopian […]
Christian summer camps closed down, priests dismissed, in China
World Watch Monitor China has closed several Christian summer camps for children and dismissed two priests for holding a camp, reports Catholic news agency UCAN. The two priests belonged to one of the only two unregistered Catholic churches in Tianshui diocese, in China’s northwest Gansu province. Young people playing at a Christian summer camp in 2008. PICTURE: […]
US: CHRISTIAN CAMPS GET CREATIVE TO ATTRACT YOUTH IN TECH-DISTRACTED AGE
STEVE RABEY, writing for Religion News Services, looks at how Christian camps in the US are adapting to engage with young people…