Organization is recruiting female chapter leaders to build local communities where women can develop their voices, strengthen families and turn faith into meaningful action HOUSTON, Texas — In direct response to the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent vote to further restrict women from pastoral leadership and preaching, Mission Driven Church today announced the international expansion of…
Andy Burnham, who is widely expected to take over as prime minister later this month, has said there is “some room” for movement on tax. In an interview with LBC, Burnham suggested business rates on warehouses could be increased to fund tax cuts for pubs and some high-street businesses. But the newly elected Makerfield MP…
Serena Williams walked out onto Wimbledon’s Centre Court, closed her eyes, took a deep breath and smiled at the ovation that greeted her. Williams has consistently said she has nothing left to prove as she resumes the tennis career from which she evolved away in 2022. But no-one was sure what to expect on Tuesday…
(RNS) — In 2009, 18 people were hospitalized with kidney failure and dehydration and three died after participating in a Spiritual Warrior “sweat lodge” retreat led by self-help guru and multimillionaire entrepreneur James Arthur Ray. Participants had paid nearly $10,000 to attend. Ray had lied about his credentials. Two years later, he was found guilty…
In a sign of the simmering discontent within the Make America Healthy Again coalition, some of its most visible figures rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, lobbing criticism at the Trump administration for siding with a pesticide-maker. Inside, the justices were hearing arguments in a highly-anticipated case involving the glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. “You…
On a sweltering night in August 2024, moments before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed then-candidate Donald J. Trump at a packed rally in Arizona, a conservative young wellness podcaster named Alex Clark had a fleeting backstage conversation with the once-and-future president. “I said, ‘Mr. President, please keep talking about food and pharma; this has a…
Shorouk Express “Casa Caterina opened its doors in 2018. It represented the first attempt in Italy to run a shelter specifically for trans people on the migration pathway,” says Antonella Ciccarelli, Coordinator of the Society and Rights section at CIDAS. I met Ciccarelli on a November morning at the cooperative’s headquarters in Bologna. At the…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump says he plans to “lead a movement” to “get rid of” mail-in voting and the use of voting machines to process…
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Shorouk Express But Europe’s favorite secessionist telenovela appears to have come to an end — at least for now. Last May, nationalist parties failed to secure a majority in Catalonia’s regional parliament for the first time in 30 years. Instead, voters backed 58-year-old Salvador Illa, a pro-unionist socialist politician who campaigned on social issues instead…
