COMECE contributes to EU consultation on mandatory due diligence
COMECE welcomes EU’s proposed initiative to hold businesses liable for human rights violations and environmental harm throughout their supply chains, and calls for an ambitious approach...
Researchers and practitioners gather to explore insights into the complex and multidimensional challenges related to the availability of and access to food.
Protesters hold up Wanted posters with an image of Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, as they march in Yangon – AP By — Shyamal Sinha Myanmar’s junta leader has called on the public to prioritise facts and not feelings, and said an election would be held and power handed to the winning party, […]
An exile Tibetan monk casts his vote in the preliminary round of elections to choose a new Sikyong and members of the Parliament at a polling station in McLeod Ganj, India, on 3 January 2021.File photo/Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal By Lobsang Wangyal McLEOD GANJ, India, 7 February 2021 With much enthusiasm and excitement, more than 60 […]
Determined to create awareness on the danger of cancer disease in the state, Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Abubakar Bagudu, has said that he has engaged traditional and religious leaders on the cancer awareness programme of the state.
Bagudu, who stated …
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) – If you're Christian in Bluefield — and most everyone is, in this small city tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains — you have your choice.
You can follow Pastor Doyle Bradford...
Pope Francis has reached out to the world, offering encouragement to many suffering from the global COVID-19 pandemic, saying "we are in the same boat" and that everybody is vital as he assessed the state of humanity.
Join the webinar “Human Dignity and Resilience: Migrants and Hosting Communities”
COMECE is pleased to invite you to participate in the “Human Dignity and Resilience: Migrants and Hosting Communities”, a webinar to be held together...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Laura D’Oya, a priestess of an Afro-Brazilian religion, was at the center of the ceremony. Crouched down, she held a cigar in one of her hands and a top...
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Prof. Jacob Olupona on his 70th birthday, wishing him, his family, friends, acquaintances and the academia a most memorable milestone celebration.
The president, in a congratulatory message by his spokesman, …
CEC Sends Letter To French PM Concerned About Draft Law
In a letter to the French government, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) expressed deep concern over the draft law introduced to fight Islamic radicalism...
Having reached the vice president’s chair in the U.S. Senate, the self-proclaimed QAnon shaman, UFO expert and metaphysical healer removed his coyote-skin and buffalo horns headdress and announced, with a megaphone, that it was time to pray.
“Thank you, …
Tibetan marcher Tenzin Dhondup (Phayul photo) By Shyamal Sinha Tibetan peace marcher Tenzin Dhondup reached the final destination of his ‘March to Freedom’ after traversing the distance of over 2300 km distance from Dharamshala, considered the exile capital of the Tibetan diaspora to Nathula, Sikkim near the Tibetan border on Wednesday. He was accompanied […]
Over the past one week, protests against the three farm laws in Rajasthan, which were earlier concentrated at Shahjahanpur in Alwar district, along the state border with Haryana, have spread to the state’s eastern districts.
At some places, farmer outfits …
Few topics are as delicate as religion — especially in the Middle East.
Officially, Arab states have major Muslim populations, varying from around 60% in Lebanon to almost 100% in Jordan or Saudi Arabia. Since the...
The international Focolare Movement that promotes unity and universal kinship has a new president for the next six years -- Margaret Karram -- an Arab Catholic, born 1962 in Haifa, Israel.
Steven Weitzman thinks the story of race and religion in America goes beyond the Black and white binary, a narrative that excludes many Jews of color.
After the racial justice protests that swept the nation...
Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers offer free online course to help new businesses get off on the right foot
Surprisingly more businesses than ever are starting during the pandemic, according to 2020 statistics. They will...
Christians from different traditions are looking to the international community to take action after a military coup in Myanmar - also called Burma where politicians, journalists and human rights activists were arbitrarily locked up.
Myanmar military on Monday, 1 February, declared a one-year state of emergency in the country after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling National League for Democracy’s (NLD) party, news agency AFP reported quoting TV channels. By — Shyamal Sinha Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the armed […]
Hungarian and Italian Scientologists Deliver Vital Aid to Croatian Families Devastated by Last Month’s Earthquake
Freezing temperatures add to the challenges facing victims of the 6.4 magnitude Croatia earthquake. Volunteer Ministers bring cooking and heating equipment...
Interfaith Response to COVID-19
Faith-based organizations and religious institutions have been in the frontline mitigating the impacts of COVID19 and providing communities with much needed guidance and support. This page highlights some of the actions...
On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Rev. John L. McCullough, President Emeritus of Church World Service. CWS is a global ecumenical organization specializing in Development...