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IRAQ: HOW ONE CHRISTIAN MONK IS USING HIS EXPERIENCES TO HELP OTHERS

IRAQ: HOW ONE CHRISTIAN MONK IS USING HIS EXPERIENCES TO HELP OTHERS

World Watch Monitor reports on how Raeed, a monk from Qaraqosh, is drawing on his own experiences of hardship - including being run over by a US tank and being forced to flee when the so-called Islamic State invaded his home - to help others in Iraq...

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AFRICA: "WE ARE IN A CATASTROPHE" - BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY THREATENS FUTURE OF LAKE CHAD BASIN

ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor, reports on the humanitarian "catastrophe" affecting the Lake Chad Basin region...

REFORMATION: GERMANY'S PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES PLEDGE 'HEALING OF MEMORIES' TO MARK 500TH ANNIVERSARY

REFORMATION: GERMANY'S PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES PLEDGE 'HEALING OF MEMORIES' TO MARK 500TH ANNIVERSARY

The leaders of Germany ’s main Protestant and Roman Catholic churches have joined in calling for a "healing of memories" ahead of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation next year. STEPHEN BROWN, in an article first published on the World Council of Churches' website, reports...

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM:

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: "THE DEFINING ISSUE OF OUR TIME"

CLAUDIA ATTS reports for World Watch Monitor on an international gathering of parliamentarians last week in Germany to discuss the issue of freedom of religion or belief...

BRINGING THE BIBLE TO LIFE: 'THE FIFTH GOSPEL' TAKES A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

BRINGING THE BIBLE TO LIFE: 'THE FIFTH GOSPEL' TAKES A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

DAVID ADAMS reports on the creation of a new resource developed by a team in Geelong to increase Bible literacy among school students by providing some context to the stories of the Old and New Testament...

The Statistic

28th September 2016
Number of people, globally, who live in places where air pollution exceeds recommended limits: 6.76 billion
Source: WHO

 

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Moments

28th September, 2016
DIED: Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres, at age 93, in Tel Aviv, from a stroke.
DIED: Australian cricketer, author and media personality Max "Tangles" Walker, of cancer, at age 68.

 

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Mal Fletcher 2016 MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, argues that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) can only survive if it adapts but adds that while emerging technologies will help, human contact will remain essential...

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Rev Dr SEFOROSA CARROLL, who works with churches and communities across the Pacific for Australian mission and humanitarian organisation UnitingWorld, writes about why she's taking part in the 'Pray for Our Pacific' initiative...

They Said It

"I am staggered that so many conservative or evangelical Christians would see a man who is a bully, who made his money by casinos, who has had several wives and several affairs…That they would somehow paint him as a hero, as someone that we could stand behind."
- US Christian author and speaker Philip Yancey, speaking in an interview with Evangelical Focus, about US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (as published on 23rd September, 2016).

 

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This Week on the Web

16th September, 2016
Colombian Catholic priest Rito Julio Alvarez's mission spans the world, helping former child soldiers and explioted children in his homeland, and asylum seekers from north Africa in his adopted home of Italy. Read about his work in this story by the ABC's Europe correspondant STEVE CANNANE here...

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The Word Explained

26th September, 2016
Apocalypse: To reveal, unveil, disclose. (Originally, it did not have the cataclysmic end of all things focus.)

 

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