by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 18, 2015 | News
Climate change will impoverish an additional 100 million people globally by 2030 if sufficient steps are not taken to mitigate global warming, according to a World Bank report. The publication, “Shock Waves,” noted the intimate connection between climate...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 17, 2015 | News
The U.S. State Department was asked last week if the Islamic State (IS, also called ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) was committing genocide. An earlier report by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) labeled IS actions toward the Yezidi people in northern Iraq and Syria as...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 16, 2015 | News
Shaun King, senior pastor of Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, talks about how to confront the craziness of Christmas in a new online video interview with EthicsDaily.com. King is currently leading a Wednesday night series called “Confronting...
by Sarah Stone | Nov 16, 2015 | News
Nepal’s two major earthquakes earlier this year shattered the lives of millions of people. Now nationwide fuel shortages, caused by more than two months of blockades along the border with India, mean life for people in Nepal is even more precarious. “It...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 10, 2015 | News
Affirmation that climate change is a serious problem is most prevalent in Latin America and Africa, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The Pew report, released a month prior to the December United Nations’ conference on climate change (known as...
by Paul Hobson | Nov 9, 2015 | News
Major churches in the United Kingdom are warning that the government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill marks a dangerous shift away from a core principle of the welfare state and will make poor people even poorer. A YouGov survey commissioned by the churches has...