MORE THAN 2.8 MILLION TO FACE HUNGER IN NEXT SIX MONTHS IN MALAWI, SAYS WFP
29th September, 2015 More than 2.8 million people face hunger in Malawi in the next six months after severe floods and drought ruined this year’s harvest, according to the UN’s World Food Programme. The organisation said the floods earlier this year were the "worst in living memory" and washed away homes and food stocks as […]
CHURCH BUILDINGS TORCHED IN TANZANIA
29th September, 2015 Three church buildings were set ablaze on 22nd September in an area of northwestern Tanzania where Muslim extremists have issued threats, pastors said. A pastor of one of the three churches whose buildings were gutted, Vedasto Athanas of Living Water International church, said area Christians are worried and frightened as such attacks […]
SPACE: NASA FINDS “STRONGEST EVIDENCE YET” THAT LIQUID WATER FLOWS ON MARS
DAVID ADAMS reports on news this week of evidence of water on Mars…
POSTCARDS: INDONESIAN CHURCH HOLDS 100TH SERVICE OUTSIDE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
VISHAL ARORA, of World Watch Monitor, reports on the ongoing struggles of the GKI Yasmin Church in Bogor, Indonesia…
BOOKS: MINISTRY IN THE TRENCHES – A LONG OVERDUE CELEBRATION OF THE WORK OF AUSTRALIAN ARMY CHAPLAINS
29th September, 2015 DAVID ADAMS Dr Michael Gladwin Captains of the Soul: A History of Australian Army Chaplains Big Sky Publishing, Newport, NSW, 2013 ISBN-13: 9781922132529 "(W)hat turns this book into a compulsive page-turner are these personal stories; detailed accounts taken from interviews and other primary and secondary sources of the way chaplains served alongside […]