Call for churches to promote healthy diets to tackle global diabetes crisis
The World Council of Churches has called on churches and related organisations to help promote healthy dietary habits and physical activity to help people avoid excessive weight gain. The call was made last week as the World Health Organization released its first global report on diabetes which showed that the number of adults living with […]
Story emerges that more than 20 Christians killed after Islamic State took Syrian city last year
More than 20 Christians were reportedly murdered in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatain after it was captured by the so-called Islamic State, the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church has told the BBC. Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II told the UK-based news organisation some 21 of the 300 Christians who remained in the city when IS […]
ESSAY: THE ‘PANAMA PAPERS’ AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
BEN THURLEY, national coordinator of Micah Australia, talks about why Christians should care about the revelations contained in the Panama Papers..