STRANGESIGHTS: AN UNEXPECTED WINDFALL; OF PRIESTS, CATS AND CALENDARS; AND SINGING CHRISTMAS TREE TRADITION CONTINUES…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Christians and Jews “partners” not “enemies”, Orthodox rabbis say in statement
A group of Orthodox rabbis in Israel, the US and Europe have published a ground-breaking statement in which they have acknowleged Christianity is “neither an accident nor an error, but the willed divine outcome and gift to the nations”. The rabbis said that in separating Judaism and Christianity, God willed “a separation between partners with […]
Chibok schoolgirls not among 900 rescued from Boko Haram in Cameroon
World Watch Monitor None of the 900 people freed from Boko Haram captivity earlier this month are victims of the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, according to news reports. Authorities in Cameroon said 2nd December it had freed the 900, held by the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, in Nigeria’s northern region. As reported […]
INDIA: HINDU NATIONALISTS BLAME CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS AS CENSUS SHOWS TRADITIONAL ‘BHARATIYA’ FAITHS IN DECLINE
ANTO AKKARA, of World Watch Monitor, reports…
SIGHT-SEEING: OPPOSE ISIS BUT DON’T CREDIT ANONYMOUS
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, says opposition to ISIS (among a number of acronyms for the so-called Islamic State), shouldn’t extend to supporting hacker group Anonymous…