LAOTIAN AUTHORITIES RELEASE HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS BUT PASTOR DETAINED
8th October, 2014 Authorities in southern Laos released six Christians who were detained after attending a house church service, but the pastor remained behind bars and faces "torture", an advocacy official said. The Christians "have been released from imprisonment in the Boukham village detention center," confirmed Sirikoon Prasertsee, director of Human Rights Watch for Lao […]
FILM-MAKERS PLEASED WITH RESPONSE AS NEW LEFT BEHIND MOVIE OPENS IN THE US
8th October, 2014 The new Left Behind movie, starring Nicolas Cage, took in $6.3 million last weekend after opening in the US and Canada on Friday. Based on the best-selling book series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins, the film follows the story of Rayford Steele (played by Cage) who is piloting a commercial […]
ESSAY: TROLLING MAKES US ALL TRUMAN
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER looks at the issue of trolling and how, amid the seemingly ubiquitous nature of the internet, we have come to “blur the lines” between artifice and reality…