by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 4, 2017 | News
Forty-three nations have an official state religion and 40 nations give preference or favoritism to a religious tradition, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of 199 nations released on Oct. 3. Of the remaining 116 nations included in the assessment, 106 (53...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 3, 2017 | News
There were 1,196 human trafficking offenses in the U.S. reported to law enforcement in 2016, according to the FBI’s annual “Crime in the U.S.” report released on Sept. 25. The majority (1,007) of reported trafficking incidents involved commercial sex...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 27, 2017 | News
Jay Kieve is coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina (CBFSC). 1. Where did you grow up? Riverdale, Georgia (a southern Atlanta suburb). 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Numbers 21:4-9. The story of lifting...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 27, 2017 | News
A majority (79.4 percent) of the 689,800 current Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients were born in Mexico, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data. DACA recipients from Central America were the next highest percentage:...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 25, 2017 | News
There are currently 40.3 million people enslaved globally and 151.6 million children subjected to child labor. These were key figures from two new reports – one on modern slavery and one on child labor – published Sept. 19 by the International Labour...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 21, 2017 | News
More than half (3.5 million) of all school-aged refugees (6.4 million) did not attend school in 2016, according to a U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report released on Sept. 12. The percentage of refugee children with access to primary schooling increased 11...
