Sight-Seeing: The evangelical sexual abuse crisis is the spiritual warfare of our time
Evangelical writer KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about how she came to a greater understanding of what happens to victims of abuse and how trauma works…
Put idle capacity to work now making vaccines, says WTO head
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The world cannot act soon enough to put idle manufacturing capacity to work making COVID-19 vaccines to help redress a massive imbalance in global supply, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday. WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics and treatments was “both the moral and […]
G7 scolds China and Russia over threats, bullying, rights abuses
London, UK Reuters The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s richest nations to discuss crises such […]
Taliban would roll back Afghan women’s rights – US intelligence report
Washington DC, US Reuters The Taliban “would roll back much” of the progress made in Afghan women’s rights if the Islamist extremists regain national power, according to an assessment released on Tuesday by top US intelligence analysts. The US National Intelligence Council report likely will reinforce fears that the Taliban will resume the harsh treatment […]
Twitter hears from record respondents over world leader rules
Reuters Twitter Inc has received a record number of responses to a survey on how it should handle world leaders on its site, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, an issue in the spotlight ahead of the possible return of former US President Donald Trump to Facebook. Twitter, which permanently banned Trump after the 6th January […]
StrangeSights: Belgium farmer moves national border; the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge; and, ‘Galaxy Quest’ at the US Congress…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Canada taken to court over COVID policy that pushes asylum-seekers to US
Toronto, Canada Reuters Canada’s pandemic-era policy of turning back asylum-seekers trying to enter between official border crossings is unlawful and violates their rights, a legal action filed on Tuesday alleges. The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers filed the legal action in federal court claiming the policy is unlawful because it fails to consider the situation […]
One in two people globally lost income due to the pandemic – Gallup
Nairobi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation One in two people worldwide saw their earnings drop due to the coronavirus, with people in low-income countries particularly hard hit by job losses or cuts to their working hours, according to new research. US-based polling company Gallup, which surveyed 300,000 people across 117 countries, found that half of those with […]
Vatican number two intervenes to shed light on Swiss Guard deaths
Rome, Italy AP The Vatican Secretary of State has intervened personally to shed light on one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life. Cardinal Pietro Parolin asked the Vatican […]
Addressing conspiracy theories: United Methodist pastor’s podcast ‘Cross Over Q’ challenges QAnon, comforts its victims
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how one United Methodist vicar is addressing the QAnon conspiracy theories…