Businesses doing good can reboot ‘fairer’ Africa after coronavirus

Johannesburg, South Africa Thomson Reuters Foundation Businesses doing good in Africa can create jobs for some of those hardest hit by the new coronavirus pandemic – the youth, women and the poor, British researchers said on Wednesday. Social enterprises, or businesses with a social purpose, employ up to 41 million people across Africa, said a […]
Beyond the pandemic, reimagining Italy’s Catholic clergy

AP When coronavirus struck inside Europe’s largest diocesan seminary, it upended the intense educational routine and spurred soul-searching among the nearly 130 young men studying to become Catholic priests. At Seminario di Milano in northern Italy, which has been preparing clergy since the mid-1500s, communal life turned into strict confinement to individual rooms, classes and […]