US senators condemn Cuban doctor programme as human trafficking
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Cuban programme that exports doctors around the world qualifies as human trafficking according to a resolution introduced in the US Senate on Thursday. The resolution specifically mentions about 8,300 medical workers who had been stationed in Brazil under a contract with the Cuban government until recently. The workers have since been […]
GreenSight: The ‘kopher’ or henna
ALVIN JOHNSON looks at the Biblical plant known as the ‘kopher’, thought to refer to henna…
Grub’s up! Can insect pet food cut dogs’ carbon pawprint?
Thomson Reuters Foundation Love your dog, but worried about the environmental impact of their meat-heavy diet? Now one British company is offering a solution – feed your pooch insects instead. It launched a dry dog food on Thursday made from black soldier fly larvae in a bid to tackle the “carbon pawprint” created by pets […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘VICE’S COMEDIC HYPERBOLE CARRIES A SERIOUS MESSAGE
NILS VON KALM watches ‘Vice’…
Is Saudi Arabia on the road to ending child marriage?
Thomson Reuters Foundation Saudi Arabia is trying to ban child marriage through new regulations, but loopholes are leaving young girls in the deeply conservative kingdom unprotected, campaigners said on Thursday. The Shura Council, a top advisory body to the government, approved regulations on Wednesday to prohibit marriage for girls and boys under 15, and those […]
US: ONCE A NATIONAL MODEL, UTAH STRUGGLES WITH HOMELESSNESS
GREGORY SCRUGGS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, amid a general growth in homelessness in America, Utah – once a model for how to address the issue – is now losing ground…
US Methodist university presidents call on denomination to amend LGBTQ policies
RNS Ahead of next month’s special session on sexuality intended to resolve an issue that has dogged the United Methodist Church in the US for decades, a group of affiliated college and university presidents issued a strong call for full inclusion of LGBTQ Christians. The group, which represents presidents of 93 United Methodist-affiliated colleges and […]
Essay: Where is Christianity headed? The view from 2019
WESLEY GRANBERG-MICHAELSON, a former general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and author of Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century, looks at the challenges for the church in the year ahead…