Pests on the march as climate change fans the spread of crop destroyers
Nairobi, Kenya Thomson Reuters Foundation Ravenous pests are on the march to colder regions as climate change lures crop eaters to new territories, threatening jobs and exacerbating world hunger, the United Nations said on Wednesday. From fall armyworms to desert locusts, the pests mostly menace crops in hot countries but the rise in world temperatures […]
Essay: How women in the Southern Baptist Convention have fought for decades to be ordained
SUSAN M SHAW, who was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister in 1993, reflects, in an article first published on The Conversation, on the history of women’s ordination within the largest Protestant denomination in the US…
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric berates politicians as deadlock drags on
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Lebanon’s most senior Christian cleric on Wednesday bemoaned the inability of the country’s senior politicians to agree a government as the country sinks further into financial collapse. “We don’t have bread, we don’t have medicine, we don’t have fuel, what are they waiting for?” Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai said after a […]
Postcards: Jamaican artists paint murals to revive derelict downtown
KATE CHAPPELL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how residents in the Jamaican capital of Kingston say the Paint the City project makes crime hotspot Kingston feel safer, as the murals draw in visitors and investors…
PTL! Andrew Garfield, Jessica Chastain to star as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in biopic
RNS Tammy Faye Bakker’s story has been told in countless television interviews, as the punchline in Saturday Night Live skits and in a number of musicals. Now it’s one step closer to getting the Hollywood treatment. Tammy Faye Bakker and her then-husband, television evangelist Jim Bakker, talk to their TV audience iat their PTL ministry […]