HISTORICALLY SPEAKING: SPANISH MISSIONS IN TEXAS OFFICIALLY INSCRIBED ON WORLD HERITAGE LIST…
DAVID ADAMS reports…
CSW EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR 14 CHRISTIANS ARRESTED IN IRAN
10th November, 2015 Religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide has expressed concern for 13 Iranian Christians arrested in the city of Varamin, south east of Tehran. The UK-based organisation said agents from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence arrested 13 people – most of whom were previously members of the Emmanuel Protestant Church in Tehran, which was […]
37 ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS RELEASED IN SYRIA
10th November, 2015 The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) has released another 37 Assyrian Christians kidnapped nine months ago in Syria, Assyrian sources said. The group, including men and women in their sixties and seventies, were among the 253 Christians snatched in IS attacks on Assyrian villages in northeastern Syria’s Hassaka province. Three thousand indigenous Assyrian […]
SIGHT-SEEING: SHOWING LOVE AND COMPASSION BY VOTING “NO”
BRUCE C WEARNE reflects on Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s recent comments on same-sex marriage…
BOOKS: OUT OF MY MIND “A DEEPLY PERSONAL” THEOLOGICAL PILGRIMAGE TO WRITE A NEW STORY WITH GOD
10th November, 2015 DARREN CRONSHAW WJ De Kock Out of My Mind: Following the Trajectory of God’s Regenerative Story Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2014 ISBN-13: 9781625642322 "Out of My Mind narrates a deeply personal memoir of theological pilgrimage from a constrained theology of ethnocentric pride to a theology that is generative and generous." The […]