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When the right to die becomes a duty to die
(5 minutes) Allowing assisted suicide will pressurise many suffering and disabled people to end their lives, argues Mary Ann Macdonald.
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Honouring the world’s desaparecidos
(8 minutes) Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso describes her lifework campaigning for ‘desaparecidos’, people who have been forcibly taken and ‘disappeared’ by those in power, and supporting their families.
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The young, architects of interreligious harmony
(4 minutes) An interfaith encounter together with Pope Francis in her native Singapore helped Nicole Law appreciate the key role of young people in bringing religious believers together.
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Why the best love is unequal
(10 minutes) Families, and economies, work better when we’re prepared to love more. Elizabeth Oldfield explains.
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Bangladesh: guide to a revolution
(9 minutes) Adamah Media offers a unique insider’s analysis of how student activism led to the downfall of a repressive regime. Saira Rahman Khan and Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso explain.
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Ten steps to renew inter-religious relations
(10 minutes) Joseph Evans offers a practical ‘decalogue’ which could help religions engage in positive discussion and action for the good of all concerned.
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“What matters for our kids is not online connections, but in-person relationships”
(10 minutes) The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community, argues Seth Kaplan.
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Money and marriage: why we mustn’t leave the family in the hands of accountants
(6 minutes) Lewis Lower argues that we need to change how we speak about marriage and family life and resist any temptation to see them in merely economic terms.
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A calm approach to migration
(9 minutes) Migration is an issue which provokes strong disagreements and it is rare to find a balanced assessment of both the challenges and opportunities it presents. But in this article Pablo García Ruiz makes a very good attempt.
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Why work? What my manual labourer father taught me
(5 minutes) A conversation with her father helped Mary Ann Macdonald appreciate that you need to work for deeper motives than money or social prestige.
