In the US, 35 Black churches to receive total of $US4 million for preservation work
United States RNS Nearly three dozen historic Black religious sites in the US will receive a $US4 million infusion of funding to help them with renovations and preservation of their buildings across the country. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced on Monday that 35 churches are the recipients […]
Aid groups resume some Afghan operations with female healthworkers
Reuters Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban-run authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictions last month barring female NGO workers. The International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and CARE said this week they were again operating some programs, mostly […]
World’s oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, dies at 118 – retirement home
Paris, FranceReuters French nun Sister Andre, the world’s oldest person, passed away at 118 in France, her retirement home told Reuters on Tuesday. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, had survived COVID last year. She was born on 11th Fabruary, 1904, and was […]
Rohingya fleeing Myanmar or Bangladesh by sea surged fivefold in 2022 – UN
New Delhi, India Reuters The number of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar or Bangladesh by sea surged fivefold to more than 3,500 in 2022 from a year earlier, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday, in the deadliest year for the ethnic minority group at since 2014. At least 348 Rohingya died or went missing as they […]
Spanish pets blessed by priests in annual ritual
Madrid, Spain Reuters Hundreds of Spanish pet owners took their animals to church on Tuesday where Catholic priests blessed them on the Day of St Anthony the Abbott, the patron saint of animals. Priest Antonio Dominguez, 67, blesses a dog with flowers soaked with holy water at San Antonio Abad Church during celebrations on the […]
Brazil riots: Christians represented a significant faction of those who took part
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports that at least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack…
In Yemen, medical shortages compound suffering of cancer patients
Sana’a, Yemen Reuters Ali Jabri cradles his sobbing son Ayoub ahead of chemotherapy treatment at Yemen’s largest cancer hospital in the capital Sana’a where an eight-year war has led to shortages in life-saving medicine and equipment. The 12-year-old is one of 81,000 patients registered with the National Oncology Center from across Yemen seeking free treatment, […]
Essay: Japan is paying families a million yen to move to the countryside – but it won’t make Tokyo any smaller
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER MATANLE, a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK, looks at the latest Japanese efforts to ease Tokyo’s overcrowding while revitalising rural areas…