Bahanaga Bazar, the rural Indian train station rocked by disaster
Bahanaga Bazar, India Reuters Few trains stop at Bahanaga Bazar, the sleepy, small rural station in the Balasore district of Odisha state where India’s deadliest train accident in more than two decades happened. Three rooms, topped by a corrugated metal roof, and three platforms make up the station, which serves 14 trains daily, more than […]
Where next?: With Keller’s death, “young, restless, and reformed” new Calvinists are at a crossroads
The Reformed resurgence swept through evangelicalism in the early 2000s, fueled by Calvinism, charisma and complementarianism. BOB SMIETANA and KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service report that despite the fall of a number of leaders, the movement retains staying power…
Frayed nerves and uprooted lives in Russian city close to Ukraine border
Belgorod, Russia Reuters A week after fleeing her home in southern Russia to escape cross-border shelling from Ukraine, Irina Shevtsova is adjusting to life as a refugee inside her own country. Shevtsova is one of thousands of Russians who have abandoned their homes and taken shelter in Belgorod, the nearest big Russian city to the […]
Essay: COVID has highlighted the connection between spirituality and vaccine scepticism
In an article first published on The Conversation, TAMAS LESTAR, of the University of Winchester, looks at the “strong correlation” between spirituality and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy…
Postcards: Village bin man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany
ALVISE ARMELLINI, of Reuters, reports on a new exhibition opening in Rome’s Quirinale Palace later this month…
Mexico investigates troops over video of “execution” of five men
Mexico City Reuters Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated 18th May from […]
In the US, Utah district’s Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans
Salt Lake City, United States AP Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah’s State Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district’s decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed “sensitive materials” law passed two years ago. Concerned parents […]