Christian groups look to mark 50th anniversary of King assassination
RNS Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, speaks in Eutaw, Alabama, in June, 1965. Rev King was head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. PICTURE: AP Photo. Christian groups are planning more than the annual holiday celebrations that note the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, this year. […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘THE POST’ A CLEVER FILM ABOUT A SEMINAL MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
DAVID ADAMS watches Steven Spielberg’s The Post…
Jeans made by kids? People “forget” facts when buying unethical products, study finds
Thomson Reuters Foundation Consumers who knowingly buy products that have been made unethically – using child labour or endangered trees – may cope by forgetting the truth about their origins, researchers said. In an online study by Ohio State University (OSU) in the United States, people who were asked to put together an outfit with […]
Forcing Salvadorans out of US carries twin risks says Red Cross
Thomson Reuters Foundation Moves by the United States to expel 200,000 Salvadorans could rob families in El Salvador of vital overseas income and overwhelm the tiny country as people flood home in search of a new life, according to the Red Cross. The 200,000 Salvadorans have been living in the United States since 2001 but […]
Essay: A Presbyterian pastor languishes in a Turkish prison
SANDRA JOLLEY and KRISTINA ARRIAGA, vice chairwomen of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, write about the plight of imprisoned Prebysterian cleric Andrew Brunson…
‘TIME’S UP’: AS HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS OUT, WILL OTHER WOUNDED WOMEN GO DEEPER IN THE SHADOWS?
In the wake of protests at this year’s Golden Globes, SUSAN KIM, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches website, speaks with Methodist Bishop Mary Ann Swenson, vice-moderator of the WCC’s central committee, about the issue of gender equality…