Posts

Showing posts from November, 2023

They empower audiences to take action

Image
A Q&A with the team behind Impact Your World View in browser An exclusive inside look with your free CNN account 🤝 How to Impact Your World this giving season   By Leighton Rowell Lima Members of the CNN Special Projects team, which runs the Impact Your World initiative, volunteer at Open Hand Atlanta in December 2022, packing nutritious and healthy food for Georgians in need. When disaster strikes or conflicts erupt, people around the world rely on CNN to keep them informed and help make sense of what's happening. But for many readers and viewers, engaging with these stories goes beyond the headlines. They want to make a difference.   That's where Impact Your World comes in. For more than 16 years, this CNN initiative has empowered audiences to take action by connecting them to organizations helping those in need. Audiences have donated millions of dollars to vetted nonprofits providing relief to victims of the war in Ukrai...

Travel news: UK airport’s ‘bus shelter’ prayer room ridiculed online

Image
Also: Love in the skies and a three-year cruise is officially scuttled View in Browser 11.25.23 In travel  news this week: a 50-year romance between a Pan Am pilot and a flight attendant, a three-year cruise that never happened and the European ski resorts that ran out of snow.   By Maureen O'Hare   ⛪ Bus shelter, smoking shed or house of God? The prayer room. ( From Bristol Airport/X) Rome has St. Peter's. Cambodia has Angkor Wat. And now, joining the pantheon of must-visit places of worship around the world, the UK's Bristol Airport has revealed its new  prayer room  – which looks suspiciously like a bus shelter with a "multi-faith area" sign stuck on it. Even more so because it's located inside the airport's free waiting zone, the passenger drop-off and collection area.   "Located just off the Silver Zone roundabout, the new area provides customers with a private space to reflect and pray whils...