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Dize: You can make a difference and it starts by giving thanks | RELIGION COMMENTARY
Thank God, I had a restful sleep. Thank you, Jesus, I have not had a cold this year, or the flu, or coronavirus disease. Thank you, Jehovah, for keeping my family free from COVID-19. Thank you, Lord, that I am well and able to care for those who may need …
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Thinking Anew – Religion can be a source of error as well as truth
… the relationship between religion and politics, believing that religion could be a … of infallibility. He said that “religion is so frequently a source …
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Seeing the Book Biz from Both Sides Now
… don’t publish books!” she’d say. “Publishers publish books.” I would dutifully … Global Reports—often complain that book publishers edit and fact-check their … of getting a book out is strikingly decentralized. Small publishers like us …
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Hopeful, colourful, simple: WHO adapts COVID-19 messages in Ukraine to the local audience
WHO/Europe began testing its COVID-19 messages in Ukraine with the aim of reinvigorating public support for protective behaviours. The team tailored their messages to meet the needs of particular groups, and tested revised COVID-19 messages and visuals in individual focus groups.
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Diabetes increasing COVID risks, showing need to strengthen health systems
As the number of people with diabetes surges, many are at “increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19”, the UN chief said in his message for World Diabetes Day, on Saturday.
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COVID-19: Consequences of ‘chronic under-investment in public health’ laid bare: Tedros
A global chronic under-investment in public health has been exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which must now lead to a major re-think in how all societies value health, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.
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Ukrainian Greek Church launches “Feeding the poor” campaign – Vatican News
In coordination with the World Day of the Poor, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is promoting a campaign aimed at “Feeding the Poor” – focusing especially on those who are suffering as a result of Covid-19.
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South Sudan: ‘No child anywhere should suffer from polio’ – UN health agency
Although South Sudan had recently been declared free from the wild poliovirus, the UN health agency said on Friday that 15 children under the age of five are reported to have been infected by a vaccine-derived form of polio, which has left them with irreversible paralysis.
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Scores of migrants drown in Mediterranean in separate shipwrecks – Vatican News
Over 110 people, including young mothers and their children, have drowned in the past three days in four shipwrecks off the Libyan coast.
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Caleb’s Concepts: Many worship it. Too bad science isn’t a religion!
“The science says this, the science says that,” drones a pundit from a news station that only cares about viewership. More pathetic than the display of poorly presented empirical evidence are the comments on social media pertaining to climate change. “ …