Wow!: From tattoos to Christmas cake, seven unique ways into life after slavery
In a special report as 2019 draws to a close, MATT BLOMBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at seven initiatives aimed at helping slavery survivors rediscover their place in the world…
Ugandan pilgrimage to honour murdered archbishop as a martyr for freedom
Kampala, UgandaReligion Unplugged The Church of Uganda has introduced an annual pilgrimage for the late Archbishop Janani Luwum, who was murdered by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada for protesting his government’s brutal suppression of dissent with arbitrary killings and kidnappings. According to the church, Christians from different denominations plan to participate in the […]
Climate champions Thunberg and Attenborough join forces to push for change
Barcelona, Spain Thomson Reuters Foundation Two titan climate campaigners, Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough, joined forces on Monday to push politicians and businesses to step up action on climate change after a year in which schoolchildren took to the world’s streets in protest. Swedish teen activist Thunberg, who turns 17 this week, said 2019 had […]
Noisy birds to holograms, eight curious property rights debates in 2019
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Fights over property rights extended to pavements, space, the sea, data, dead people’s images, and even noises and smells in 2019, with governments scrambling to define and legislate emerging areas of concern. At the same time, deadly conflicts raged over land and water with at least 108 people killed trying to […]
Oxygen bar to fake rain: 10 ways India tried to beat its ‘airpocalypse’
New Delhi, India Thomson Reuters Foundation From an oxygen bar to artificial rain, a number of initiatives and ideas were floated in 2019 to battle India’s pollution crisis. India is home to 15 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, with New Delhi named as the capital with the dirtiest air, according to […]
Updated: Mass evacuation as “columns of fire” threaten Australian holiday area
Updated: 8.30pm Melbourne/Sydney, Australia Reuters Tens of thousands of people were evacuated on Monday as “columns of fire” fuelled by extreme heat and high winds bore down on a popular tourist region in Australia’s south-east. Wildfires that have plagued the country’s eastern coast for weeks flared again to danger levels in Victoria state’s East Gippsland, […]
Updated: Two killed in US church shooting
Fort Worth, Texas, USReligion Unplugged A gunman opened fire during the Lord’s Supper at a Church of Christ in Texas on 29th December, killing two worshipers. Armed members immediately returned fire and killed the shooter at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement. “Today, evil walked boldly among us,” Tarrant […]
YEAR IN REVIEW: 12 PEOPLE WHO CHALLENGED AND INSPIRED US IN 2019
Sight editor DAVID ADAMS looks at 12 people, some of whom we bade farewell to, who challenged and inspired our readers this year…
Christianity Today’s split with Trump highlights deeper issue in white evangelical America
Washington DC, US Reuters After evangelical publication Christianity Today published a blistering editorial on what it called Donald Trump’s “grossly immoral character”, some church leaders and the US President himself denounced the criticism as elitist and out-of-touch. The 19th December editorial sparked a Christmas holiday debate over religion in US politics, and posed new questions […]
Essay: Deaf Christians often struggle to hear God’s word, but some find meaning in the richness of who they are
In an article first published on The Conversation, JANA BENNETT, professor of religion at the University of Dayton, looks at the challenges – and joys – people with hearing loss can face in Christian worship…