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COMECE contributes to EU consultation on mandatory due diligence

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...

“Participation is the key”: Bahá’í Chair tackles food security

Researchers and practitioners gather to explore insights into the complex and multidimensional challenges related to the availability of and access to food.

Buddhist Times News – Saffron-robed monks among thousands of anti-coup protesters in Myanmar

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, […]

Preliminary round results and fallout

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 […]

Bagudu engages traditional, religion leaders on Kebbi’s cancer programme

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 …

West Virginia city’s evangelical Christians torn over religion’s role in politics

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 tells diplomats ‘everybody is important’ and ‘we are all in the same boat’

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”

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...

Is Turkey a Proof that Religion and Democracy Cannot Coexist?

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Democracy, Featured, Gender, Gender Violence, Headlines, Human Rights, Middle East & North Africa, Press Freedom, Religion, TerraViva United Nations ...

Afro-Brazilian religion ritual before Carnival

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...

Buhari salutes Olupona, Professor of African Religion at 70

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, …

European churches express concern over French draft law related to Islamic radicalism

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...

On Religion: Twisted prayers, temptations to worship political power

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, …

Buddhist Times News – Tibetan peace marcher Tenzin Dhondup walks 2300km ‘March for Freedom’ till Nathula

  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 […]

Protests on agri laws pick up in Rajasthan, across caste, religion

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 …

Middle East: Are people losing their religion?

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...

Israeli-born Margaret Karram elected president of Focolare movement

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.

Penn Lecture Series Explores Race and Religion

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...

Scientology helps new businesses get off on the right foot.

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...

Buddhist Times News – Excavation at ancient Buddhist university site in Bihar’s Telhara Tehsil

Excavation at ancient Buddhist university site in Bihar’s Telhara Tehsil ...

International community must act after Myanmar coup, say Christian leaders

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.

Buddhist Times News – Suu Kyi Detained; India Expresses Concern

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 […]

Volunteers helped Croatian families after Earthquake

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...

Faith in the Frontline with COVID19

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...

Feudal Future Podcast — A Test of Strength: Pandemics Through the Eye of Religion, with Rev. John L. McCullough

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...
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