18 June 2015, The Tablet

The press showed little sign of easing off to minimise the risk of imprisonment


 
The press showed little sign of easing off to minimise the risk of imprisonmentTwo narratives about respect for natural phenomena wove in and out of the British news this week. One concerned the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si’, “On the care of our common home”. The other was about a British woman said to have offended a mountain in Malaysia.“A Brit tourist faces three months in jail for ‘causing an earthquake’ by stripping off on a sacred Malaysian mountain,” reported the Daily Star. “Eleanor Hawkins appeared in court yesterday with three others accused of ‘upsetting the gods’.” But even the Star couldn’t pretend that it was the court which had accused her of upsetting the gods. “The 23-year-old has been cha
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