by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 28, 2016 | News
U.S. evangelicals are minimally engaged in the 2016 presidential campaign, despite significant focus by media outlets on the importance of gaining the evangelical vote. “Only one out of five evangelicals (20 percent) said they were following news about the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 25, 2016 | News
A gender gap is evident in religious engagement around the world and particularly in the United States. Analyzing data from six faith traditions – Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated – Pew Research Center found...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 23, 2016 | News
Child refugees are “particularly vulnerable” to exploitation by human traffickers, according to a report by The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Actions Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA). While most migrants – primarily...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 22, 2016 | News
Nearly 25 percent of annual deaths worldwide are due to unhealthy environmental conditions, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report published March 15. “Findings confirm that 23 percent of global deaths and 26 percent of deaths among children under...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 21, 2016 | News
Payday loans and predatory lending practices were a key focus of a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week. Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), offered a semi-annual report and answered committee members’...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 18, 2016 | News
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared Islamic State (Daesh) actions in the Middle East against Christians, Yezidis and other religious groups to be genocide. “In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control,...