Bible Society representatives from across globe gather for six yearly conference in US this month
Bible Society representatives from around the globe will gather in the US next week for the United Bible Societies’ World Assembly. The event, being hosted by the American Bible Society which is this year marking 200 years of existence, takes place just once every six years. This year it will see about 500 delegates gather […]
3,000 people join Berlin church’s March for Tolerance
Via World Council of Churches Some 3,000 people answered a call by Berlin’s Protestant church to march for “openness and tolerance” as a response to a demonstration in the German capital by extreme rightwing groups. “We stand for the values of our constitution against attempts to divide our society,” Bishop Markus Dröge of the Evangelical Church […]
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: HARRIET TUBMAN
DAVID ADAMS looks at the life of Harriet Tubman, a former slave and Christian who was a key figure in the Underground Railroad in the US during the 19th century…