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Among corporate America's most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St Scholastica have taken on the likes of Google, Target and Citigroup - calling on major companies to do everything from AI oversight to measuring pesticides to respecting the rights of Indigenous people. "Some of these companies, they just really hate us," said Sister Barbara McCracken, who leads the nuns' corporate responsibility program. "Because we're small, we're just like a little fly in the ointment trying to irritate th...
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In February, President Joe Biden issued an executive order that declared a "national emergency" in response to "high levels of extremist settler violence" in the West Bank and imposed economic sanctions on "persons undermining peace, security, and stability" there. Although he emphasized the threat posed by attacks on Palestinian civilians, his order extended much further, encompassing "any foreign person" whom the secretary of state or the secretary of the treasury deems "complicit" in actions that "threaten the peace, security, or stability of the West Bank." Because the order prohibits "the...
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In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain - a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed his life. Sanborn, a rebel and adventurer by nature (she dropped out of college to meditate in India for a year), quit her job, gave up health insurance and pooled her savings to take two months to walk the Camino. By the third day of her walk, she promised herself she’d return every year. Nine months later, she was back, guiding her first group of eight pilgrims. A decade later, now 45 and residi...
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Last week, Oklahoma state Superintendent Ryan Walters announced that the state could soon require public schools to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments, including requiring religious text be included in all classrooms. "Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," Walters said last Thursday, "to ensure that this historical understanding is there for every student in the state of Oklahoma." The statement came just days after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state could not approve a religious ...
Reason
As the art world celebrates the centenary of Surrealism in 2024, one Italian artist has been making waves lately for his unique approach to painting that pays homage to the tradition, echoing the pioneering techniques of Max Ernst and Spanish surrealist painter, Remedios Varo. Giovanni Guida, born in 1992 in Acerra near Naples, is the youngest artist to be included in major encyclopaedias for using the 'grattage' technique, a method of scratching a, still-wet, painting to reveal underlying layers. "The goal is to remove the chromatic pigment to make the primordial colour below resurface," Guid...
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio.) believes that American neoconservatives have caused 40 years of "disasters" in the Middle East. But he's doubling down on exactly the vision they've had all along: an alliance of Israel and Sunni Muslim–led states, backed by U.S. military power, to "police" the region. At a Thursday conference hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—where I worked as a researcher several years ago—and The American Conservative, the senator laid out his idea of a "foreign policy for the middle class." Vance, who is on Donald Trump's shortlist for vice president, attac...
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New York (AFP) - The number of Americans who identify as non-religious is soaring in the profoundly Christian United States, according to a Pew Research Center study published Tuesday. Some 29 percent of American adults are now religiously unaffiliated -- up from 16 percent 14 years ago -- the survey found. America is home to a powerful, socially conservative Christian right-wing political faction and Christianity remains the overwhelmingly dominant religion in the country. But the religion is declining markedly, the Pew results showed. Seventy-eight percent of US adults identified as Christia...
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Washington (AFP) - A US pastor who made a brief television appearance in drag, wearing a huge pink wig and sequined leotard, has been removed from his ministry, a local church official in Indiana said Wednesday. Wearing high-heeled thigh boots, lipstick and purple eyeshadow and with a crucifix around his neck, Craig Duke, 62, made a big splash on the HBO show "We're Here," at least among his horrified parishioners. The Methodist reverend described the appearance as "an incredibly wonderful, refreshing, deepening, powerful spiritual experience," in an interview with the Religion News Service. B...
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Har Bracha (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Dangling off vines at Har Bracha settlement in the occupied West Bank, the grapes are plump and ready to pick. This year, evangelical Christians are volunteering for the job.Missouri-based HaYovel organises "faith-based volunteering" for Christian backers of Israel."Our mission is to take an active role in, and educate people about, the prophetic RESTORATION of the land of Israel that is happening TODAY," says its website. More than 450,000 Israelis live in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.Many are attracted by low rents, but others are ...
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The history of Western music begins in the 4th Century as the Roman Empire was crumbling under the onslaught of barbarian invasions. It was adopted and developed within the Christian Church for use in ecclesiastical services, to elevate religious sentiment among the population and to wean the many converts to Christianity off of the pagan music and rites which were considered antithetical to Christianity.Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreThe History Of Western MusicWhile the history of Western music began in the 4th Century Church, it was based on the ancient Greek and Roman musi...
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