The Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts seeks to reclaim a place for Christian faith in human culture and put faith back into the festival season.
David Stewart
David Stewart, S.J., who was the London correspondent for America from 2014 to 2020, files from his native Scotland, where he now lives and works.
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Conservatives are racing toward a catastrophic defeat in U.K.’s July 4 election
Some polls are going as far to predict that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might lose his own seat on July 4. He would be the first Conservative prime minister to suffer such a humiliation.
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Analysis: Britain’s bizarre, costly and cruel plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
Condemned by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK as a “cruel plan” that “violates human dignity,” the policy authorizes deporting people who come to the United Kingdom in search of safety to Rwanda.
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In Scotland, faith leaders push for fair pay for caregivers to the elderly
Catholic leaders in Scotland recently joined their Presbyterian Church of Scotland counterparts in advocacy for fair pay for workers in this increasingly essential sector of health care givers for the elderly.
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Scotland leads the way in climate disaster funds for the developing world. Will other nations follow?
With COP28 in the United Arab Emirates imminent, opinion in the developed world on climate change has become deeply polarized. Perhaps exhausted by the digital news cycle, many people have developed compassion fatigue.
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Analysis: COP26’s ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’ is a flawed deal that has satisfied nobody
Glasgow was meant to deliver what Paris had begun. Instead, as its last days ground on, discontent and disappointment were rising.
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Will God answer our prayers about climate change? Catholics in Glasgow await an urgent climate meeting
Will God answer the many prayers raised for COP26 in countless places of worship worldwide this weekend? Will the planet’s leaders accept what they must do?
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Pope Francis has endorsed a universal basic income. Covid-19 could make it a reality in Europe.
As the second Covid-19 wave swept Europe so too has a burgeoning conversation about Universal Basic Income.
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This Manchester United footballer is helping feed U.K.’s hungry schoolchildren. His opposition: Boris Johnson.
In England, Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has become a hero off the pitch after championing kids and families living in poverty, refusing to forget that his own background was not much different.
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A London plague diary
There is anger, especially at the high number of deaths in the country’s nursing homes, and widespread dismay at the London government’s stumbling attempts at managing the pandemic.